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when large parts of your civilization do not believe in reality, you get what we are getting now.
the rest of us are gain knowledge through research, improving lives, exploring and discovering the universe etc etc, and those backwards poeple want to drag us back into a religious dark age with anti-intellectualism, anti-science, sexism, and just your regular xenophobia.
"We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?"
"This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. "
i always loved carl sagan's philosophy .... mostly it was "all this **** you are argue about, politics, economics ... none of this **** matters. the universe .... the universe matters"
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