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Sagan said that a long time ago. I don't see why this generation's vapid crap is worse than my generation's vapid crap. We were the ones who turned politics in
by jfengel 3y ago
Sagan said that a long time ago. I don't see why this generation's vapid crap is worse than my generation's vapid crap.
We were the ones who turned politics into a 24 hour sports competition. If the kids are watching shitty dances and worse AI generated nihilist absurdism, I consider that a leg up on the permanent "five minutes hate" that takes up too much of the older generation's entertainment.
We managed to survive what Sagan warned about and I bet they will too.
- thenerdhead 3y agoThe beginning of the longer quote sets the context that he was speaking in the future of his children and grandchildren’s generation. I did not include that here as it wasn’t as relevant. > 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...