2026-10-10 17:48 UTC
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@Heliograph@mastodon.au 2026-10-10 21:48
@openculture@toot.community funny that 👀 😲
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@NickSchwanck@aus.social 2026-10-10 21:56
@openculture@toot.community I've noticed.
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@joncounts@mastodon.nz 2026-10-10 21:58
@openculture@toot.community I remember well reading that passage in Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World” when it was published, while I was living in the US. At the time I think it was supposed to be a warning rather than a prediction, yet, sadly, here we are.
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@randygalbraith@mastodon.social 2026-10-11 11:24
@openculture@toot.community Thanks for post that. Yes, it is worth sitting for a moment with Sagan's words... "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…"