Isaac Asimov on the 'Cult of Ignorance'

from 1980 to 2020; the quote is powerful and apt. 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”.