Quoting Isaac Asimov, A Cult of Ignorance, Newsweek, p. 19, 1980

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always 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, A Cult of Ignorance, Newsweek, p. 19, 1980

2:26pm on January 19, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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