{"id":995,"date":"2017-03-21T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=995"},"modified":"2017-03-21T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:44:22","slug":"isaac-asimov-on-anti-intellectualism-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2017\/03\/21\/isaac-asimov-on-anti-intellectualism-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Asimov on anti-intellectualism in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ASIMOV-1980-Cult-of-Ignorance.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-999 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/isaac-asimov-300x191.png\" alt=\"Isaac Asimov on anti-intellectualism in the United States\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/isaac-asimov-300x191.png 300w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/isaac-asimov.png 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>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 \u201cmy ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Isaac Asimov, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek: <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ASIMOV-1980-Cult-of-Ignorance.pdf\">\u201cA Cult of Ignorance\u201d by Isaac Asimov, January 21, 1980, p. 19. (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Retrieved from:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/aphelis.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf<br \/>\non 3\/21\/2017<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cmy ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.\u201d &#8211; Isaac Asimov, 1980 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2017\/03\/21\/isaac-asimov-on-anti-intellectualism-in-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isaac Asimov on anti-intellectualism in the United States&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}