Article note: Oh Node ecosystem. I though you were a joke for years (a literal "no one seriously uses this" joke), and it keeps turning out I was right, just not how I thought.
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.”