Article note: That "Maybe don't build culture to suck itself into a black hole when it's financially convenient." is an unusual idea is really distressing.
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.”