Bust of Carl Sagan
Ran into this news report from a few years back. It focused on Carl Sagan, and a prediction which he made many years ago about our present times. That prediction proved to be eerily accurate.
So it seemed like something worth sharing here. I should mention that this is something which I have written about before, but without the added video of the news clip, marveling at how Sagan's ominous vision of the future has come to look prophetic.
Sagan predicted, back in 1995 (over a quarter of a century ago now) exactly the kind of nation that we now live in. Look at this quote:
“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 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 American 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”
~ Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago
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