“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“We no longer have those principled and informed arguments. The foundational knowledge of the average American is now so low that it has crashed through the floor of “uninformed,” passed “misinformed” on the way down, and is now plummeting to “aggressively wrong.” People don’t just believe dumb things; they actively resist further learning rather than let go of those beliefs.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
“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.” Isaac Asimov”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
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