Isaac Asimov - Science and science fiction writer

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. That's been true for a very long time.

Assigned reading when I was in college in the late '60s was Richard Hofstader's book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. "Hofstadter argued that both anti-intellectualism and utilitarianism were consequences, in part, of the democratization of knowledge. Moreover, he saw these themes as historically embedded in America's national fabric, an outcome of its colonial European and evangelical Protestant heritage. He contended that American Protestantism's anti-intellectual tradition valued the spirit over intellectual rigour." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_American_Life