Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal.... The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit. An educated, well-informed population, the kind that a functioning democracy requires, would be difficult to lie to, and could not be led by the nose by the various vested interests running amok in this country.

"Age of Ignorance" New York Review of Books, March 20, 2012