There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. 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."
D&D math jokes? Let's go!
Q: What phases through stone and is equivalent to the axiom of choice?
A: Xorn's Lemma