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6. The cult of stupidity is getting stronger...
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 10:22 AM
Jul 2016

Thanks mostly to the Internet.

In the 50's, before Sputnik, Isaac Asimov wrote an essay called "The Cult Of Ignorance," where he decried how the then popular media, (especially movies,) celebrated ignorance and denigrated intellectuals and science.

Today, it's the cult of stupidity, thanks mostly to talk radio and the Internet.
Faux "news" doesn't help either.

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