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.”
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 America’s 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.
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