That's my friend Adele. She lives in East Creek and waits tables at the Mystery Bar & Grill, where Terry tends bar. She's explaining a key difference between Christianity and Charlie's Polytheistic Animism: In the former, knowledge is suspect, in the latter, knowledge is desirable. When I gave my talk for teachers this spring about digital immersion and reading, I noticed that an expressed anti-intellectualism was one of the common responses, and began to dig a little deeper into the concept. I found that the United States has a history of anti-intellectual sentiment, rooted in Christianity, but also in business and politics. I'll be writing more soon about Richard Hofstadter's 1964 Pulitzer winning book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life on The New Animist. Stay tuned.