There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
– Isaac Asimov, 1980
Newsweek: “A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, January 21, 1980, p. 19. (PDF)
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