Article note: Well, that's probably better than disappearing. At least as long as it doesn't get overrun with SEO spam sponsored link farming type shit.
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.”