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Home » Blog » Miscellaneous » Asimov on Anti-Intellectualism

Asimov on Anti-Intellectualism

Turns out the US has been going to hell in a handbasket for a while:

“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

(via Goodreads, attribution veracity unverified.)

 

Posted by: Phire on December 7, 2011 |
Tags: anti intellectualism, isaac asimov
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