Article note: The article is basically a "Get over it, after complexity lost with Multics, now complexity has won" argument.
Posting partly to test my stupid syndication gadget.
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.”