ALL HAIL THE GREAT PROPHET CARL!

[thewayne]

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time-when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

Carl Sagan, A Demon-Haunted World, 1995

(A Demon-Haunted World was Sagan's penultimate book, he died in 1996 of pneumonia from a form of leukemia at the age of 62.)

Comments

[kaishin108]

You say that well, it's all so outta control. Capitalism at it's worst. Along with a loss of democracy and a horrible president. Wayy the opposite of a win, win situation.

[thewayne]

Yep.  The billionaires now own the country.  At least for now.

[mtbc]

Thank you, prescient indeed.

[disneydream06]

And it took just under 30 years to reach such a wonderful world. :o :o :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

A lot of this began with Reagan, it's just followed from there and is now reaching its zenith.

[disneydream06]

Thanks for nothing Ronnie. :o

[thewayne]

Ronnie was really a scourge on this country.

[disneydream06]

Beginning of the end, imho, of the Repub Party.

[dewline]

He warned us all.

[gingeriana]

1995! wow
and how precise, huh