RustyBertrand on Nostr: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The ...
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectual-ism 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
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