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Related: About this forumPink Floyd - On the Turning Away
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I am still trying to figure this stuff out.
highplainsdem
(62,579 posts)state of stupid
(162 posts)took me to the video. If this did not fix it let me know.
highplainsdem
(62,579 posts)Deuxcents
(27,246 posts)Good job getting it to post and no better help could there be than from highplainsdem!
While youre sorting around with Pink Floyd, there is a video called the Pale Blue Dot that features Carl Sagan and this song, the Turning Away. I hope you will like it, too.
state of stupid
(162 posts)Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my childrens or grandchildrens timewhen 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 whats true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
Suspecting Carl Sagan had either a time machine or a crystal ball.
Ok, probably the time machine. pic.twitter.com/zpKH1HUYhz
Charles Bergquist (@cbquist) January 23, 2017
Notably, in the chapter that includes the quote, Carl Sagan discussed a few American cultural phenomena of the time, like the TV show Beavis and Butthead and the movie Dumb and Dumber. He uses these as examples of the dumbing down of America. One can only wonder how he would update his take on Americas future if he was alive today.
I do not know for certain which particular video you are referencing because I have found several to go with.
All I can say is if you have Carl Sagan and Pink Floyd what can go wrong>>>>
I found several of these, so if this is not the one you are writing about, let me know. If we are talking Floyd and Sagan,
I am all in.
Deuxcents
(27,246 posts)And Carl Sagans warnings that there is no one to help, only ourselves. I wish he was still with us to see Artimis making this historic trip..hed be right up front explaining what this means for us and all the while being ecstatic about the future. Thanks for making the effort to find this video..I wish everyone could see it 🌺