Martin NuttyWriting almost 30 years ago #CarlSagan worried about a country poorly educated in #science
Has has foreboding been realized?
Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACY"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
Mr. Completely@Badger_AF @mnutty Richard Hofstadter won a Pulitzer in 1964 writing about this topic. Currently backordered on bookshop.org but you can order it used from Powells. One of his foundational works
https://www.powells.com/book/anti-intellectualism-in-american-life-2221151767578
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_American_Life
Laure@mrcompletely @Badger_AF @mnutty really this era is marked by the seizure of social channels, the proliferation of websites, tv and radio shows often fronted by powerful interests and their lackeys in what has been a full throttled far right media revolution since 2015. That’s what’s happening.
@mrcompletely @mnutty I purchased it Hofstadter's book a few years back and started reading it, but found it impenetrable. 😞
@Badger_AF @mnutty he certainly wrote in High Midcentury Academic
@mrcompletely @mnutty Thanks goodness - I thought I was a dunce!