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A CULT OF IGNORANCE
ISAAC ASIMOV/MY TURNIt’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.
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.”
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#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
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Full text:
A CULT OF IGNORANCE
ISAAC ASIMOV/MY TURNIt’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.
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.”
1/8
#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
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Full text:
A CULT OF IGNORANCE
ISAAC ASIMOV/MY TURNIt’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.
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.”
1/8
#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
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Full text:
A CULT OF IGNORANCE
ISAAC ASIMOV/MY TURNIt’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.
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.”
1/8
#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
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Apropos to illiteracy in America, the late great Isaac Asimov's essay A Cult of Ignorance is worth reading! It's the source of the famous quote that
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."
Read the whole thing in PDF here: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf
(Full text is in the replies, as a thread.)
#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
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Apropos to illiteracy in America, the late great Isaac Asimov's essay A Cult of Ignorance is worth reading! It's the source of the famous quote that
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."
Read the whole thing in PDF here: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf
(Full text is in the replies, as a thread.)
#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
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Apropos to illiteracy in America, the late great Isaac Asimov's essay A Cult of Ignorance is worth reading! It's the source of the famous quote that
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."
Read the whole thing in PDF here: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf
(Full text is in the replies, as a thread.)
#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
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Apropos to illiteracy in America, the late great Isaac Asimov's essay A Cult of Ignorance is worth reading! It's the source of the famous quote that
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."
Read the whole thing in PDF here: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf
(Full text is in the replies, as a thread.)
#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism
