The End of Inevitability

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The End of Inevitability

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Angus Hervey - November 13, 2024

QUOTE: "The America that I've known my whole life, for all its flaws and hypocrisies, stood for something. It wasn't just about military power or economic might - it was about values. Democracy. Rule of law. Human rights. The idea that nations could work together to solve shared problems. Facts matter. Truth is truth. This is what made it exceptional, what set it apart in the course of human history. The country has of course, repeatedly fallen short of its own professed standards, but the ideals themselves never seemed to be in question.

The billionaires got there in the end though, convincing a majority of Americans to buy into the lie that personal prosperity and the pursuit of equal rights and social justice cannot coexist. When the rest of the world looks at Trump, we no longer see an aberrant exception to American exceptionalism; we see what the country now stands for. That's why the clever explanations all ring so hollow. The worst possible people have won; a kakistocracy that believes tariffs are smart and that drag queens are more dangerous than guns. This is not how stories are supposed to end. . . . . "

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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995" - Carl Saga

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QUOTE: "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 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” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995" . . . . [ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474 ... children-s ]