Courtesy the Big Smoke
Better writers than I have lamented the decline of respect for intellectualism and culture. It is a backlash, I’m sure, to the decades or centuries that intellectuals have mocked the ignorant, uneducated, or ‘simple folk.’ In many ways, troubling or not, the recent US election comes as no surprise. In its wake, numerous things worry me, among them my fear that education will continue to be defunded and deregulated, and the brilliant minds that innovate technology, medicine, human understanding, and culture will no longer be attracted to this country or worse will flee it.