What do you consider a "lost art" these days?

[Rizen]

61. Intellectualism itself is a lost art.

We're a country of willful ignorance, prejudice and science denial full of appallingly stupid people. It's gotten to the point where people will believe anything they hear if its repeated enough. Facts and critical thinking have taken a back seat to conservative dogma. To quote Isaac Asimov, "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.”