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Phlem

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10. It's also called willful ignorance.

Reply to Trust Buster (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:08 PM

Mar 2016

When you ask them to do their own research, they won't have it.

From Isaac Asimov:

“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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