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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ironically, that mindset predates the internet.

    “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.”

    • Isaac Asimov

    He died in 1992.