The Demon Haunted World

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    Deafening Silence Well-Known Member

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    Given recent events, someone posted a very apt quote from Carl Sagan's 1996 "The Demon Haunted World" which eerily sums up what's happening.

    "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."
     
    Deafening Silence, Jan 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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    When you consider how short a history they have compared to others, they seem to have made a right pigs ear of things in no time.
     
    fitzytyke, Jan 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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    Trump is gonna make them a manufacturing powerhouse again isn't he? And rename the Gulf of Mexico.
     
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    I hereby relinquish my previous claims to the title Nostradamus.
     
    Brush, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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