June 23 - Monday Quote

This goes along with my post from yesterday, only Mr. Asimov said this 34 years ago in a Newsweek article published on January 21, 1980.  I can't imagine that he would have been happy to find out just how right he was.

monday quote:  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, writer. 1920-1992)