the second essay for chapter 55 was a harder choice however i decided to go with anti intellectualism: why we hate the smart kids by grant penrod. it talks about how people treat smart people and put them down for being nerds when really they are the people who are advancing out culture further in all feilds its kind of crazzy how true that is though because if your smart you get picked on and meida wants us all to be dumber because thats what the cool thing is now a days reguardles we should turn our ways and start to look up to them (103)