Article note: Some details I hadn't read before in this telling - It's surprising how many parallels there are between early-mwc and early-microsoft's activities.
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.”