Carl Sagan in 1995

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
> Date: August 14, 2017 at 6:39:08 PM EDT
> To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>, Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>, Dave Farber <dave () farber 
> net>
> Subject: Carl Sagan in 1995
>
>
>    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 decline, unable to distinguish between what
>    feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing,
>    back into superstition and darkness.  The dumb 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 pseudoscience and superstition,
>    but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
>
>        --- Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a
>            Candle in the Dark", 1995
>
>
> ---rsk



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