“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. 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. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
Thursday, April 24, almost evening
The rest of the world is going to see that Americans only used social media in 2024 and January - May 2025 to react to Elon Musk & Donald Trump. There wasn’t a daily hashtag / front page / news stories covering massive social media with people asking for re-humanization, stop making “Republicans Hate Earth”, “Republicans Hate Humanism” the front-face of USA. All People praying to OTHER NATIONS for psychology help to rescue people from bad.
Dear World:
My neighbors in my nation have all adopted the attitudes of: clean water is bad if a little more profit can be made for rich people, drill baby drill and use even more oil than we used before just because we think oil is some kind of tradition and identity like a ritual, health care is for rich people and poor people should suffer with a lot of paperwork and red-tape anxiety and feeling nobody cares if they die, we weren’t prepared for the last pandemic in late 2019 and people seem ultra-prepared for the next disease outbreak to encourage it and death-wish people they disagree with even harder, people have changed - maybe it’s the social machines that made them care less about goodness love and compassion and only care about hating people they don’t like, on and on and on, school teachers in our nation are treated like shit and now everyone believes the worst ideas and values in our future, on and on, show we are human and we have made human mistakes and we aren’t just all sheep following the mockery and entertainment that the White House has created that makes our nation look like it is unable to deal with Twitter-lords on social machines by re-humanizing social media.