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> Sadly, at no point in the interview is the question asked in the headline answered. I beg to differ. He touches on problems with the post-secondary educatio

> Sadly, at no point in the interview is the question asked in the headline answered. I beg to differ. He touches on problems with the post-secondary education system, increasing hostility from the public against the elite, the collapse of journalism, and failure of experts to engage the public as parts of his answer to that question.

moomin 10y ago
Indeed. Maybe the fact that not even that question has a simple answer underlines his point.
js2 10y ago
Okay, fair enough. But I feel like those are explanations of how we came to be ignorant, but not necessarily why we'd worship it. Maybe I'm taking the headline too literally.