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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

One year after the World Wide Web was made public. Coincidence?