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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/Sheril/statuses/110673316334130720">Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 15:15:11 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Sheril" title="sheril@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/15426-48-20221101033912.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Sheril Kirshenbaum" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Sheril Kirshenbaum</a></section><article><p>“…when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues…”</p><p>Carl Sagan &amp; Ann Druyan, The Demon-Haunted World, 1995<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/threads" rel="tag">#threads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twitter" rel="tag">#twitter</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1757292#notice-3450549">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-07-08T15:15:11+09:00" title="Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 15:15:11 JST">Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 15:15:11 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/110673316334130720" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/110673316334130720">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1227065">"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or my 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 pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/673/265/314/340/733/original/67a8fffda579d346.jpeg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/673/265/314/340/733/original/67a8fffda579d346.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 15:15:11 JST Sheril Kirshenbaum
“…when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues…”
Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, The Demon-Haunted World, 1995
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1. "I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or my 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 pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
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