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"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
by jballanc 14y ago
"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 "my ignorance is just as good as
your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
I sometimes wonder if this is the "true price of freedom"...
- notJim 14y agoThere was a person I knew in college who ardently believed in a lot of popular pseudo-science myths, like the ones about vaccination, and that global warming isn't real, that it's just a conspiracy of climate scientists. In about a year, that person will be awarded a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. The cognitive dissonance is astonishing to me.