I learned a new definition for ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM: Rational - TopicsExpress



          

I learned a new definition for ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM: Rational thought is the enemy. Critical thinking is the devil’s tool. I also learned that reading in this country is despicable! An NEA polled folks about reading fiction/nonfiction/poetry ---1982: 82% had read some BUT BY 2004: 40% of had read any. Also Isaac Asimov wrote in the 1980s: 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.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:50:05 +0000

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