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“I’ve gotta find time to read that book” he said as he continued scrolling.

@i0null This is a very great book. Highly recommended. Also, published after his death, The Varieties of Scientific Experience.

The man should be considered a saint.

@i0null hearing sagans words read at this cadence and carelessness is super grating

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There are a million reasons this would never be broadcast on the news today, but the most obvious one is that Sagan's first sentence, as quoted, would require two commercial breaks and a "now Piper will interview a monkey on roller skates" moment.

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Insanely accurate 😱

@i0null That guy shouldn't have that word.. he's a word exerciser.

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Truly one of the greatest human beings ever, Carl Sagan is so greatly missed.

@i0null @DaniEhm amazing

@i0null "here we are 25 years later realising what he was trying to tell us back then"

It took you all 25 years to understand what he clearly articulated at the time? 🤣

@i0null I lack a lot of context being from not USA, but the fact this old media head read those words is pretty funny.

@i0null Carl Sagan wrote it in a book. It was quoted in the very media Sagan was worried about concentrated into 90 seconds. Luckily a bit more than 10 seconds. I find it ironic.

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Well that was so spot on and what I have been witnessing in the last 25 years…

#populism #neoliberalism #dumbingdown #oligarchy #authoritarianism

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And 25 years before that, there was John Brunner with predictions for even bleaker futures.

@i0null ouch, also 😢😢😢

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"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has 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."
~Isaac Asimov

#Quote #Quotes #Meme #Memes #Asimov #US #Politics #USPol #USA #Ignorance

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"celebration of ignorance"
<sigh>