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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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Author Archives: Paul
Thursday 6th of September 2018
R.I.P. Burt Reynolds Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Sunday 2nd of September 2018
Ok, so well, foot surgery sucks… I mean, in case you were wondering. Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 23rd of August 2018
☕️ Coffee time! ☕️ @CommunityCoffee #DarkRoast brewed with my old faithful @BUNN #NHS. Ahhhh… Delicious. #coffee Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 20th of August 2018
“And look: everyone knows he [Trump] doesn’t know a lot of things, but occasionally it’s important to remember that he also doesn’t know anything.” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S5E21: August 19, 2018. Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 20th of August 2018
“U.S. factories now manufacture twice as much as they did in 1984, but they do it with one-third fewer workers.” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S5E21: August 19, 2018. Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Friday 17th of August 2018
Forbes (via Quora): Why Was Alan Shepard Allowed To Bring Golf Clubs To The Moon? #space #apollo #apollo14 #moon Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 16th of August 2018
R.I.P. Aretha Franklin. Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Sunday 12th of August 2018
“Where I grew up the Klan burned crosses in front of people’s houses and called it Christianity, then my daddy and the folks from the church would drive over and put ‘em out. Seems every religion has more than one face.” — Guy Pearce as Roy Clayton, Traitor (Paramount 2008) Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prosecutors
Unfortunately, John Oliver is—once again—right on point:
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Taibbi: Why Did John McCain Continue to Support War?
Matt Taibbi writing at Rolling Stone: But he did have one unshakeable conviction: Wherever America had a foreign policy problem, the solution was always to bomb the fuck out of someone. Long before he became a symbol of anti-Trumpism (despite having contributed significantly to the Trump phenomenon by unleashing Sarah Palin on national politics in […]
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