General Discussion

Asimov wrote about it in the 80's.

“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.”

https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

We've not changed. If anything, social media has made it several factors of 10 worse. Instead of just infecting their close friends with their ignorance, word of mouth, they can now spew it across the globe. We need to learn to live with that genie in some useful fashion before it destroys us all. I hope it's not too late.