A Wolff at the Door — Mort Report

A Wolff at the Door — Mort Report: SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – This is just my own point of view, but I’m pretty
clear about it after watching reaction to Michael Wolff’s neutron bomb,
Fire and Fury: We Americans, collectively, have gone out of our flipping
minds.

Wolff has spilled enough beans to bury Donald Trump, his clown-car inner
circle and the self-serving legislators who enable him. At least, you would
think.

But a 1980 Newsweek essay by Isaac Asimov is distressingly prescient at a
time when human habitats are simultaneously drying up and flooding while an
egomaniacal fool fingers a button that could blast a hole in our planet.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has
been,” he wrote. “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.’”

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