Based on a chapter published on October 26, 2015, this passage criticizes mass media such as the Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures who have moved in step with them for fundamentally misunderstanding the meaning of intelligence.
The author argues that intelligence can only begin with the accurate transmission of facts, and that those who speak about politics and society without even grasping this basic principle are merely second-rate people who did a little well in examination study.
The passage further contends that the rhetoric branding Shinzo Abe and his administration as “anti-intellectual” is itself the expression of anti-intellectualism by people who do not even realize that they have fallen into self-serving pseudo-scholarship.
It is a sharply worded indictment of the shallowness of postwar Japanese media and intellectual life.

2019-04-22
Before the little desk of anti-intellectualism…
Without even realizing that they have fallen into the ranks of self-serving pseudo-scholars who mistake themselves and mislead the nation…

What follows is a chapter published on October 26, 2015.
This morning, looking at the page of book and other advertisements in the Nikkei, I thought the following.
The mass media such as Asahi, and the so-called cultural figures who have moved in step with them, misunderstand the very word intelligence.
They do not even know that intelligence can begin only, first of all, with conveying facts properly.
That is why I have said that they are second-rate in Japan and, to put it by way of example, are merely people who were somewhat good at entrance-exam study.
Now they…
Though I state flatly that he is a statesman of rare realism…
Speak of the present cabinet headed by Prime Minister Abe, the finest politician of recent years…
As an anti-intellectual group, in the course of daily brainwashing foolish students…
From before the little desk of anti-intellectualism, without even realizing that they themselves have fallen into the ranks of self-serving pseudo-scholars who mistake themselves and mislead the nation…
And they make their pronouncements without even noticing how foolish they are.
It is precisely them that one should call minds inferior even to those of kindergarten children.
Because I say so, readers would do well to be convinced that this is one hundred percent correct.
If one looks at the facts proving, one after another, that everything I have pointed out has been correct, readers may trust my words one hundred percent.