Laloofah 🌱 on Nostr: The always relevant Carl Sagan on the cultivation of ignorance in 🇺🇸: “...The ...
The always relevant Carl Sagan on the cultivation of ignorance in 🇺🇸:
“...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 & superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
~Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a 🕯️ in the Dark (1995)
#quote #CarlSagan #media
“...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 & superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
~Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a 🕯️ in the Dark (1995)
#quote #CarlSagan #media