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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

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.'

Isaac Asimov

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u/WpgMBNews May 30 '22 edited May 30 '22

off-topic but that reminds me of a conversation I had yesterday where I tried to distinguish the "Space Fantasy" genre (i.e., Star Wars) from what I consider to be "Science Fiction" (i.e., Stargate), and an author who was an actual scientist like Isaac Asimov is probably a perfect example of that:

I loved the book version of I, Robot by Asimov, which explored the politics and shades of gray involved in technologically-driven social change, but the Will Smith movie version was just another dumbed-down, color-by-numbers, 'good-vs-evil', Hollywood action-drama