@i0null Yeah sure, it really sucks to have uneducated foolish people around. But the crystal clutching reality TV watching people didn’t create sub-prime mortgages, social media engagement algorithms, surveillance capitalism and privacy busting dossiers used for ad-tech. They didn’t do PR for petroleum companies claiming oil and plastics were harmless, start ideological media echo-chambers or court-packing organizations that take over the courts, and so on. Did I mention large legacy media corporations and their many distortions? Plenty of other examples could be added.

These were all made by highly educated people, many from elite universities and many with depth in science and with rationalistic viewpoints. If we are blaming groups of people for problems, there are lots of people who are none of things Sagan is complaining about but who are nonetheless actually helping drive things to the place where we are now. 🤷