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023b2f2 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 reason 9-11-01 99-percent fox-news globalism media-barons media-of-the-united-states nostradamus occupy-wall-street outsourcing rupert-murdoch proud-ignorance predictions evangelicalism future-prediction prediction atheism media reality-tv mysticism Carl Sagan
419073e "It would appear to a quoting dilettante--i.e., one of those writers and scholars who fill up their texts with phrases from some dead authority--that, as phrased by Hobbes, "from like antecedents flow like consequents." Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship's captain: learning-from-experiences logical-fallacy predictions titanic Nicholas Nassim Taleb