re: #571 Dr Lizardo

I believe it was Issac Asimov who noted there’s a strong strain of anti-intellectualism in American culture and it’s been there pretty since the beginning.

I think it arose from a certain intellectual and cultural inferiority complex towards Europe, we liked to believe that although although we were not as advanced in certain ways, we were morally superior to the decadent and effete Europeans.

And yes, that strain of thought never went away, even Sputnik was not enough to scare it out of us completely.