Before revision: In restricting education and knowledge to an élite ruling class, obscurantism is anti-democratic, because its component anti-intellectualism and social elitism exclude the people as intellectually unworthy of knowing the facts and truth about their government and the political and economic affairs of their city-state.Hersh, Seymour, "Selective Intelligence", The New Yorker, 12 May 2003, accessed 29 April 2016.Brian Doherty, "Origin of the Specious: Why Do Neoconservatives Doubt Darwin?"
After revision: In restricting education and knowledge to an élite ruling class, obscurantism is anti-democratic, because its components anti-intellectualism and social elitism exclude the people as intellectually unworthy of knowing the facts and truth about their government and the political and economic affairs of their city-state.Hersh, Seymour, "Selective Intelligence", The New Yorker, 12 May 2003, accessed 29 April 2016.Brian Doherty, "Origin of the Specious: Why Do Neoconservatives Doubt Darwin?"