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Blecht

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5. Isaac Asimov knew about people like Paul

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2020, 02:30 PM

May 2020

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.

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