Carl Sagan, 1995

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[dalton99a]

1. He forgot to add: "Led by a downright moron"

[Kurt V.]

2. one of the most astute observers of the human condition ever.

[mbusby]

3. Yea...

...verily.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Scary warning from a very smart man...

We miss you Carl.

[manor321]

5. Yes. Including superstitions like vote counts were changed or Barr ordered Mueller to stop.

[The_jackalope]

6. As dire and prescient as it is

Even this pronouncement fails to grasp the nettle.

Since 10,000 BCE, human biomass has gone up about 200x. Wild animal biomass has gone down by about 95% over the same time. Domesticated animal biomass has increased by 20x in the last century.

If that is not a sign of human overgrowth on the planet, nothing is. But hey, getting rid of Republicans and educating women is going to fix it all. It may help the small picture, but it won't do squat for the big picture:

[Moostache]

7. A voice that was prescient and is now sorely missed...

What kills me is that the issues we have now are NOT new or unique or unsolvable...they are INTENTIONAL.

George Carlin was another - albeit much more acerbic - voice among many that have become more rare...

[erronis]

16. Wonderful clip - as most of his were.

I wonder how a maggot would respond to having to watch this.

[Pepsidog]

24. Wow bookmarked this. MAGATS beware, you ain't in the club !

[marble falls]

8. "Celebration of ignorance", nailed it, didn't he?

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Prescience

[triron]

10. A great scientist and critical thinker. He had gread foresight.

I always admired him.

[Submariner]

11. It's so sad we lose the Giants of their profession too early

like Sagan, Dr. Stephen Gould, George Carlin, John Candy, Gilda Radner, etc. And shitburgers like Limbaugh, Hannity, and the whole republican f*cking party survive by thriving on corruption and hate.

[erronis]

17. That's why the "owners" or Megas did. They took over MSM to spread their slime.

Still, I think there are some pockets in MSM that give us better real information. But money and power talk, VERY LOUDLY.

[tblue37]

12. K&R for visibility. nt

[plimsoll]

13. Charles P. Pierce

Idiot America

We've been watching this for years, and realistically what else does Bread and Circuses' mean?

[Trailrider1951]

14. And I'll add this from Issac Asimov:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov


Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/isaac_asimov_802395


Aimed at the MAGAt crowd, of course

[Pepsidog]

23. Great quote on ignorance

[FM123]

26. "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"

every single time I read these words, I can't help but think of those deplorable trumpsters ...

[erronis]

15. Now that most of us are dependent on the Megas, we are increasingly under their control

There have been some very smart people that have warned us about our future, some time in the past.

Now we are there.

[Honeycombe8]

18. So he was a fortune teller, in addition to a scientist. What he wrote is stunning.

Stunning because it describes where we are now.

[Auggie]

19. K&R

[smirkymonkey]

20. K&R

He nailed it. Very prescient of him. We are there.

[Mr. Evil]

21. This is just another of the multitude of reasons why I admire him and his legacy.

Imagine if our society was structured on knowledge and truth.

[Pepsidog]

22. Wow he nailed it.

[defacto7]

25. Real genius isn't measured by the speed at which information

can be calculated and organized but by the broad assembly of that information in a way that allows one to see a picture of reality that few others can see. People like that give the rest of us a sense of the prophetic.

[Kablooie]

27. Here's a link to Carl Sagan's 1980 essay on the dangers of climate change

https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-carl-sagans-original-essay-on-the-dangers-of-cl-1481304135