{"id":264,"date":"2023-07-29T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2025-02-15T01:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T09:19:06","slug":"isaac-asimovs-best-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/isaac-asimovs-best-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Best Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>&#8220;There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always 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.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left kcFullText\">The last part containing &#8220;democracy means that my ignorance&#8230;&#8221;, is still true today; decades later.  I think this is Asimov&#8217;s best quote.  I consistently experience Conservative Americans believing their opinions hold as much weight as an expert&#8217;s knowledge.  To be fair it is not exclusive to Conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always 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.&#8221; The last part containing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/isaac-asimovs-best-quote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Best Quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[63,65,62,66,64],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","tag-asimov","tag-ignorance","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-knowledge","tag-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}