Category: Beating Back the St00pid

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A Few Words From Dr. Fauci


UPDATE: Perhaps if I'd done my proper due diligence I would not have to now retract the source of this as being Dr. Fauci and admit being guilty of the same thing I accuse so many others of doing. It is, in fact, appears to be nothing more than "a series of paraphrases of things that Dr. Fauci has discussed throughout his career in presentations and interviews" passed on through the modern equivalent of a game of Telephone, also known as the Internet.

(h/t to Doug)

Mea culpa. And well, damn.

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Are We There Yet?

Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World," 1995.

THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD

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.

Are we there yet?

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Our Country Needs An Enema

 

You may notice not one of those words is positive, not even neutral.

It's a game where there are no correct answers, just different ways to be told you are invalid, wrong, and should be ashamed. thats a shitty game to force people to play.