Thought provoking article! Asimov's line stopped me cold: "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." That's not a new disease, but it is a chronic one. And Darwin's observation that ignorance begets confidence more than knowledge does explains a lot about the current moment.

What I found most compelling here is the hopeful undercurrent. You aren’t just lamenting the decline, but also making the case that fatigue is a ruthless opposing force, and that we may be closer to a new Renaissance than the noise suggests. Intellectualism becoming a status symbol isn't a small thing. Cultural tides move slowly, but they do move.

Every transformative technology first disrupts before it elevates. We're in the disruption phase. The elevation is coming.