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Carl Sagan in 1995 book *The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark*
“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 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” Part One: a conversation with former CIA analyst Mel Goodman U.S. ADVICE TO ISRAEL: “USE SMALLER BOMBS” Paul Krugman Dismisses the Existence of a Military-Industrial Complex <www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/07/paul-krugman-dismisses-the-existence-of-a-military-industrial-complex/> Part Two: a conversation with Economist Dean Baker Democrats Did Not Embark on a Strategy of Compensating the Losers, They Embarked on a Strategy of Making the Working-Class Losers The Party of Working People Wants to Open the Door to Rich Shoplifters and Make Life Difficult for Hardworking People listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, Mel Goodman, Counterpunch, Paul Krugman, Military Industrial Complex, Gaza, Biden, bombs, Bibi, Hamas, CEPR, Economist Dean Baker, Democrats, working people, IRS, Rich Shoplifters, Speaker Johnson, taxes, Israel funding, Ukraine funding
Carl Sagan in 1995 book *The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“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 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” Part One: a conversation with former CIA analyst Mel Goodman U.S. ADVICE TO ISRAEL: “USE SMALLER BOMBS” Paul Krugman Dismisses the Existence of a Military-Industrial Complex <www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/07/paul-krugman-dismisses-the-existence-of-a-military-industrial-complex/> Part Two: a conversation with Economist Dean Baker Democrats Did Not Embark on a Strategy of Compensating the Losers, They Embarked on a Strategy of Making the Working-Class Losers The Party of Working People Wants to Open the Door to Rich Shoplifters and Make Life Difficult for Hardworking People listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, Mel Goodman, Counterpunch, Paul Krugman, Military Industrial Complex, Gaza, Biden, bombs, Bibi, Hamas, CEPR, Economist Dean Baker, Democrats, working people, IRS, Rich Shoplifters, Speaker Johnson, taxes, Israel funding, Ukraine funding
