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I’m a huge fan of Asimov. Years ago I bought a back issue of the Newsweek that this was originally published in, framed it, and still have it hanging in my office: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_C...

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> 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”.

See also book by Tom Nichols (a now-retired professor from U.S. Naval War College):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise

> “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”

I think a more apt description is the misconception that democracy supposedly means everybody gets their "equal proper timeshare of being considered correct".

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