_ Poetry Challenge Day 90 (Sun Jan 2)_
The Cult of Ignorance
Is driving a new definition
Of personal liberty.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the US, & there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism is a constant thread winding through political & cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means ‘my ignorance is as good as your knowledge’.” - I. Asimov
Or…
as Carl Sagan once wrote: “Science is a candle in the dark.”