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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/rgarner/statuses/113457757168700573">Russell Garner (rgarner@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 18:17:43 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rgarner" title="rgarner@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/154120-48-20230727132037.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Russell Garner" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Russell Garner</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113384191789484625" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/161114" title="urlyman@mastodon.social">Jonathan Schofield</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman">@urlyman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral">@aral</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3972866#notice-7761920">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-10T18:17:43+09:00" title="Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 18:17:43 JST">about 14 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rgarner/113457757168700573" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rgarner/113457757168700573">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3454746">From Carl Sagan's 1995 book:THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD immediately. Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science.But there's another reason: science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. 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 enormous ly 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.&lt;goes on to diss Beavis and Butthead, the fool&gt;</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/457/747/263/509/335/original/d04a2c02600b1301.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/457/747/263/509/335/original/d04a2c02600b1301.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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1. From Carl Sagan's 1995 book: THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD immediately. Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science. But there's another reason: science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. 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 enormous ly 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. <goes on to diss Beavis and Butthead, the fool>
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