Article note: Article suggests "There is no pony in your pile of shit," please stop surveilling and storing. Stop using the "value" to justify and enable surveillance. Also, die.
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.”