Back to politics. The following quote is verified (see Snopes).
“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...
The dumbing down of American[s] is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites... lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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