The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America

http://www.sott.net/article/313177-The-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-United-States-Anti-intellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-of-America
Date Written:  2014-06-07
Publisher:  Signs Of The Times
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18977

There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.

Subject Headings

• Anti-Intellectualism
• Education Issues
• U.S. Culture