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[S]cience 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.
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 and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) at p.32.
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[S]cience 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.
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Wednesday 22nd of January 2020
R.I.P. Terry Jones —> Terry Jones, Monty Python Founder and Scholar, Is Dead at 77 Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Wednesday 22nd of January 2020
“Senator McConnell to the white courtesy phone; a Mr. Hamilton would like to have a word with you.” —> Hamilton on Impeachment and ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’ Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Tuesday 21st of January 2020
“Australia’s biggest mining company announced today that coal output was down because of smoke from wildfires, a crisis exacerbated by climate change, which is caused in no small part by the burning of coal. The irony was not lost on many Australians.“ Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 20th of January 2020
“Stressing that their duty to uphold the Constitution required impartiality in their role as jurors, Republican senators told reporters Friday that they would weigh all evidence before lifting President Donald Trump into the air and carrying him outside on their shoulders.” Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Titans Drop Heartbreaker to the Chiefs
It’s funny how just a few plays can determine the outcome of a football game. The big difference for the Titans tonight was that instead of being the team making those “just a few plays” that swing the outcome of a game, as we’ve been more often than not the last three months, and certainly […]
Sunday 19th of January 2020
Michael Shannon was wrongly convicted of murder, even though two jurors voted to acquit him — a result of a Louisiana law rooted in discrimination. Why are split-jury verdicts still allowed in America? Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Sunday 19th of January 2020
It’s about fucking time: “A freshman representative has filed a bill to remove Nathan Bedford Forrest Day from the state’s official list of special observations“ Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 16th of January 2020
“If recent history is any guide, President Trump’s impeachment trial will be an intensely partisan display that will make the polarization of the Clinton era look like a bygone period of political harmony.” Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 13th of January 2020
“Neil Peart, the longtime drummer for the Canadian band Rush [was] perhaps [rock’s] most articulate libertarian lyricist.” Neil Peart, Champion of Individualism Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 13th of January 2020
“Trump came into office promising to eliminate the national debt in eight years, and that’s even more of a joke now than it was then.” The 2020s Will Be the Decade of Deficit Doomsday Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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