Sometimes, it makes me a tiny bit relieved that Carl Sagan didn’t live to see this shit.
As negativistic as I am - before Trump 1.0 it never occurred to me that “anti-vaccination” could become mainstream. Way back then I probably didn’t even know the term “anti-vax”.
Literally fucking dying of measles to own the libs
A child died recently and the parents it wasn’t the worst that could happen.
Lol. A 10% drop seems optimistic.
We’re entering the new dark ages. But this time, it is intellectual decline and not a lack of sources.
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…
carl sagan in 1995
