"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." Isaac Asimov.

@Z1BABOUINOS

2 жыл бұрын

"I have hairy legs" A senile crook.

@Bruv234

2 жыл бұрын

“I never had sexual relations with that woman” A sexual predator from Arkansas.

@sampleis

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bruv234 What does this have to do with this subject matter? Think about that, if you can.

@Z1BABOUINOS

2 жыл бұрын

@@sampleis *Tara Reade* Funny thing is, that what hypocritically shocked you so much about T locker room talk, back then, _"they LET YOU grab them by the P"_ is what B DID, plus, he refuses to release the evidence. You didn't "THINK" much about that. Did you, *hypocrite* ? Ask, Kamala..... 🤫

@OpeningSalvo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Z1BABOUINOS Let's see this "evidence"...or STFU

if he were here today, he'd probably think "this is worse than I could have imagined."

@SerenityInfinity

2 жыл бұрын

He fortunately escaped the worst. Knowing is not the same as experiencing.

@manuelsalvatierra25

2 жыл бұрын

He did think MJ would be legal soon, but look at where we are

@mercator79

2 жыл бұрын

"And I have a pretty good imagination"

@markhonea2461

2 жыл бұрын

He is likely rolling in his grave.

@ScottMaughan

2 жыл бұрын

Truly prophetic. In all honesty, I imagine he’d probably be a vocal part of the throng pushing for socialization of governments, standardization of publicly available information and willing to accept slow attrition of individual liberties in exchange for a more widespread acknowledgement of intrinsic human and natural truths. As much as I admire Sagan, this has always been my disagreement with his approach.

"Celebration of ignorance" is what I call social media. Carl Sagan hit the nail on the head right there. It's quite depressing really. Good luck and Good night to all.

@iceswallow7717

Жыл бұрын

when people are “unable to set their own agendas” and “unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true” hit hard and he’s so right about the dumbing down in media and shorter attention spans. back in the day focus was a given. now I look at how unrealistic modern cartoons or movies are compared to 30-50 years ago

@sandal_thong8631

10 ай бұрын

@@iceswallow7717 Funny, that he was meaning superstitious people and the fundamentalist religious rejecting science, not the rise of far-right extremists using fascist tactics to ban books, attack teachers and professors, rejecting medical professionals' advice, demonizing minority groups and so on.

@user-xv6gu7qz4o

7 ай бұрын

Naah. Social media is not the Blame, it just added Fuel and momentum to an already utterly dumb, self absorbed, borderline illiterate, obese and truly clueless country. Truth.

@robertbrow4817

6 ай бұрын

I wonder if Brian Williams recognized the irony of what he read?

@Watchyn_Yarwood

5 ай бұрын

We don't know what we don't know.

I read that book around that time, when I was a teen in Bogotá Colombia; he inspired me to become a scientist. Today I’m finishing my PhD in neuroscience.

@RAZJR54

2 жыл бұрын

Thats great I'm happy for you.

@beenaplumber8379

2 жыл бұрын

You go Os! Carl inspired me too as a teen watching Cosmos. I got my PhD and worked as a neuroscientist until early retirement 13 years ago. Right now is a remarkable time to be in the field. Since the Human Genome Project was completed, molecular research (what I did) in neuroscience has accelerated incredibly fast, but I hope you remember to keep an eye on the human side of your work, and never lose your sense of wonder. That's what Carl taught me. Good luck to you :-)

@t.taylor6135

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!!

@pasqualinamichelaconsiglio9391

2 жыл бұрын

Right on!

@eyrelobo6390

2 жыл бұрын

@@beenaplumber8379 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov

@rockabye274

2 жыл бұрын

That's an on point quote from Asimov (who was a very imaginative and influential author).

@berthabridges3483

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. It's true.

@noskillzdad5504

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly my point on the weakness of democracy. If to that we add that the people educated/capable of making the "right" calls (pandemics, climate change, etc...) are in a minority and that a substantial amount of the majority could be "easily" mislead or manipulated then we are simply doomed.

@cjshannon296

2 жыл бұрын

This is it right here

@chloekey8043

2 жыл бұрын

The founding fathers grappled with that. That’s why the Senate was not elected by popular vote in the beginning

I was born in the UK in 1984 and only really discovered Carl Sagan around 10 years ago. He is an inspiration, as a man, as an advocate of public scientific engagement and much more. He is one of my greatest heroes and I just wish he could have stayed with us a bit longer, the world needs voices like his more than ever

@Spielername

Жыл бұрын

He is asking exactly the same questions I'm asking if I'm seeing a sci-fi movie. Let's pretend (even if it's extremely unlikely) we would find a planet where an almost hairless, apelike species is the intelligent lifeform. Since everything that's big enough to be a planet has the form of a ball and therefore have different zones, wouldn't it be it like on earth, where the people from different regions have different colors and looks? The rest Carl Sagan says is correct as well. I just can't believe that almost nothing changed in the (40 or so) years after the interview.

@GuinessOriginal

Жыл бұрын

I never realised he wrote the movie contact with Jodie Foster

@marchayburn2617

11 ай бұрын

goon

@lukeyznaga7627

10 ай бұрын

we sure need him now. My god, the most p opular people nowadays, are athletes and movie stars. Why CAN'T they be professors or teachers??

I want Carl Sagan, HG Wells, George Orwell and Nikola Tesla back. That would be an amazing dinner.

@jonathanrynjah

2 ай бұрын

Cannibal...

@robindjw4539

Ай бұрын

Throw Da Vinci into the mix....

I remember even as an 8 year old I wondered why Chewie didn't get a medal.

@elram2649

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, me too. I kinda thought in my young mind; had he received a medal, it would get tangled up in his hair. 😊

@Rincenso

2 жыл бұрын

I thought back then, and later got it confirmed, that Fisher was just too short to hang it on him in a dignified manner. :P I'm pretty sure he got it in the novelization.

@richardbraakman7469

2 жыл бұрын

Presumably wookiees have a religious prohibition against medals and they're just being culturally sensitive

@lquidgrl

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

@BigLove101

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I remember as a kid 1978, 8yrs old why do white people hate Black people so much and I was still upset Elvis died. smh

Unfortunately those who need to hear his message wouldn't understand that he was talking about them.

@mariannesouza8326

2 жыл бұрын

🎯 👍🏼

@charlesciminera5881

2 жыл бұрын

Your right but enough about trump supporters

@car2029

2 жыл бұрын

My daughters say that all the time about some of our relatives, especially the ones their age.

@DirtyDoctorDan

2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame you focus on the last few lines and don't see the bigger picture.,

@dotapark

2 жыл бұрын

I hate how this always happens….

I never once stopped having an appreciation for Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan made me realize that I was connected to the earth and the stars and to every single thing on this planet.

Carl Sagan literally inspired me to be really interested in stargazing/ Science/ Tech & the perception that we are not as important as we think we are but are also more important than we think we are at the same time.🤯

Most excellent video! Carl nailed it exactly 25 years ago.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan

@Tuxedo2680

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. It's much easier to fool someone than to make them see they were fooled.

@msc2u1

2 жыл бұрын

Malvolm X said it as well: we've been bamboozled and hoodwinked. My purple have been screaming it for years only to be silenced and met with backlash. Now, we have no other choice but to stand up and look at what our "founding fathers" and their descendants gave us.

@castelodomar846

2 жыл бұрын

@@SusanKay- Trump could "stand in the middle of 5th ave and shoot someone and he wouldn't lose voters." For as much as a pathological liar as he is, that statement was true.

@clintjensen7814

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is an astounding statement in these times, and so relevant to our current situation. Great quote!

@lucycan6363

2 жыл бұрын

Like it is said, if you keep repeating a lie enough times, eventually people will believe it. The evidence is staring us straight in the face. Will enough of us believe it now to make a change?

Asimov predicted it in 1941 (Nightfall); the mob dismisses great minds and critical thinking.

@jbarnhart2653

2 жыл бұрын

Try Robert Heinlein, "Revolt in 2100"...almost LITERALLY what we're fighting against.

@ricardo950535

2 жыл бұрын

Great mind. Great man as well.

@Lunar_Sovereign

2 жыл бұрын

or read what George Washington had to say about political parties in his farewell address. it'll sound VERY familiar.

@brocksamson3282

2 жыл бұрын

Kurt Vonnegut

@warrendoris9669

2 жыл бұрын

Very appropriate references guys _ i ll submit Steel Pulse Wild goose chase. 😃

20+ years ago, this book fundamentally changed my worldview. As I write this, it's on the the shelf behind me, a bit worn and yellowed. I'll never forget the clarity it gave me. I only wish that more would come to the light of that candle.

So back in the 90s I was in college getting my psychology degree and one teacher gave the most amazing lessons where he spoke of the world and what it will look like in 30 years. OMG I started seeing it about 10 years ago and today.... BOOM 💥🎯... Here we are. Exactly where he said we'd be. I took a lot of classes, had a lot of teachers but he's the only one who gave lessons you couldn't stop listening to.

Gave me chills to read his last words. He also said: "We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it."

@NewYorkNadia

Жыл бұрын

Big pharma, who else? And who runs big pharma....? Connect the dots.

@NewYorkNadia

Жыл бұрын

@@grotekleum Thanks for this I’m gonna check it out 🙏🏻

@pmarreck

Жыл бұрын

so he’s basically advocating for a technocracy

@jannyholo539

Жыл бұрын

This is what happen when hunter laptop was ignoring.

@ChaosUnfold

Жыл бұрын

The Trump administration, the Saudi Royal family, and the Republic of China are the biggest examples of failed leadership in this regard. They all have gaslighted their respected populaces to the point that could lead to the world's complete extinction.

“a kind of celebration of ignorance”. wow did he ever nail that!!!!!

@mrmark8603

2 жыл бұрын

@@activatefiasco5843Jesus called! He hates you.

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2 жыл бұрын

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@macforme

2 жыл бұрын

​@@activatefiasco5843 Are you limited in vocabulary? You just repeat the same nonsense to everyone here.

@amramjose

2 жыл бұрын

Just like a trumpian "nuremberg" rally.

Wow. He really did describe the whole thing. Goosebumps

*Carl is such a blessing to me and I believe I got great ideas to impact many lives here; they are below.*

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Жыл бұрын

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@paul.l6310

Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Got it, thanks for the great information. I appreciate. 🙏

"The dumbing down of America ... the lowest common denominator ... the power of technology in the hands of the few ... the masses retreat to superstition ... the celebration of ignorance." Well Sagan was right and here we are!!

@barbaracarpenter1260

2 жыл бұрын

Yes here we are. All he said was so true

@kusheran

2 жыл бұрын

If our state is predictable, then organize and incentivize the logical course corrections.

@roughhabit9085

2 жыл бұрын

Socialist education is a wonderful thing.

@jacquelineellis7136

2 жыл бұрын

But but at least I am white ... you. Diuu.

@bossman6174

2 жыл бұрын

@@roughhabit9085 Socialism keeps the dumbest of them alive.

“Celebration of ignorance” that one alone explains current events

@leemendham4788

2 жыл бұрын

Who was it wrote, "when ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"?

@miketalas899

2 жыл бұрын

Sagan was talking about these Trump fools, who follow a Nazi leader that likes the "Dumb & Dumber Philosophy!" Who needs Freedom when you have Trumpism, just make up your own truths and lie about everything else!

@redwine641

2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed . I call it willful ignorance .

@marypatperego4147

2 жыл бұрын

@@leemendham4788 Thomas Gray, 1742

@MizaT11

2 жыл бұрын

People burning masks.

I discovered Carl Sagan in 2008. I watched and rewatched his cosmos series several times. then I watched them once more in 2020 when the show turned 40. He's always been a voice of reason for me

@marchayburn2617

11 ай бұрын

and its all BS

“To me, not teaching science would be perverse.. when you’re in love you want to tell the world.” - Dr. Sagan

A “celebration of ignorance” is exactly what we’re dealing with here and now, he hit the nail on the head!

@alweinhofer5453

2 жыл бұрын

Especially in the White house

@leemcgee6586

2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious….BLM and Woke “racism” are dying Just watch.

@Swnsasy

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.. Being woke, to me that means intelligence, knowledge and thinking for themselves, is a bad thing and praising a horrible person and giving applause to idiots on stage is now a thing... Read many of his books and I still didn't see this coming.. How ignorant I was in my thinking that, no, not here, not in the US.. Smdh

@andrewgates9333

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone start reading books.

@Carlos-sd6cz

2 жыл бұрын

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" - MLK

"All the way back in 1995" sounds strange when most people haven't even adapted to the 21st century yet.

@josephchase3240

2 жыл бұрын

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@deefee701

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 50 years old, and my first thought was "1995 wasn't 25 years ago!" Haha, how time flies.

@sieteocho

2 жыл бұрын

Carl Sagan's predictions weren't as astonishing as they might sound. He was merely extrapolating from trends that had already started from then. By 1995, Reagan had already been the president, America's industrial core had started degrading, jobs were already being offshored, people were already discussing China's entry to the WTO, Newt Gingrich was already speaker of the house, we already had cable TV. And a new technology called the internet was working its way around the world.

@juangringo3906

2 жыл бұрын

Adapted? Lol Ppl are ppl and that will never change. Nothing changes asides from the technology and the emporers. We use to have a nice free society until the leaders of our country sold us out to corporations and the Constitution became *for the ppl instead of Of the ppl. You see how 1 lil word changes everything? Also you act like 95 was long ago but it was merely a blink of the eye. You'll understand when (or if) you get off the surface and mature a bit more. He actually touched up on that a bit when he was speaking about the dumbing down of America but you thought he was speaking about adaption like it was a good thing ppl are turning into mindless robots lol

@gloriousdawn5699

2 жыл бұрын

This was 80s

This guy was so ahead of his time, intelligent, and the sort of mind you'd want running this country. Not like a large portion of those who are, and have in the past, run this country.

It's amazing how he could call out issues without insulting or placing blame on anyone or any group in particular. I strive to be as good a communicator as he was

"Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true" Sounds like America

@dougcooper5740

2 жыл бұрын

Yep...sounds like the every liberal everywhere

@billybarnes1763

2 жыл бұрын

@@lillypatrick8481 then explain global warming.

@billybarnes1763

2 жыл бұрын

@@lillypatrick8481 i was going to comment on all the talking points and misinformation you spouted but i think the video that Honest Brian has shared has done it for me.

@mlblja

2 жыл бұрын

Truth always made me feel better.✌️

@Deadassbruhfrfr

2 жыл бұрын

@@billybarnes1763 What about climate change? The world needs to address it, and it is.

Social Media is one of the biggest double edge swords in human history

@danielesposito9705

2 жыл бұрын

so is profitable news

@lilywondertwin

2 жыл бұрын

TV was much worse it did not let you generate your own content at all a slave to a box .

@jasonu3741

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone has a voice on social media and now the world is confronted with an uneasy truth..... We don't need this many opinions. We want to believe adding more cooks enhances the gumbo that is our social discourse.

@ThongTrinh

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielesposito9705 and so is profitable prison systems.

@lexia4016

2 жыл бұрын

It’s just tittytainment to feed junk food into our brain so when don’t think

Truely a message the world desperately needs to hear and actualize.

Mind blowing 😒🤯America really is in decline. I was thinking just about these things while watching George Carlin… can’t remember how I ended up seeing Carl Sagan and, unfortunately for me, today is the first time I hear of him … priceless work 🙏

“Chewbacca deserves a medal” - Carl Sagan

@DaveWraptastic

2 жыл бұрын

I've never seen star wars but is that really true? At the end the human crew gets a medal but he doesn't?

@christopherzapata1728

2 жыл бұрын

I can't give you a like (because nice), but I can say I 100% agree

@harrodsongs

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveWraptastic Yes, it's true.

@ultra1000

2 жыл бұрын

Chewbacca was oath bound to Han Solo, but i agree that he deserves a medal.

@JoelMcLaughlin

2 жыл бұрын

Ever occur to anyone that Chewbacca may have declined to be awarded? We assume wookie culture would let him accept it.

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

@paulholterhaus7084

2 жыл бұрын

And that is about all We have left..............Paul

@justgivemethetruth

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, well that is everyone on Earth then.

@alpha1755

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he was talking about ANTIFA and BLM.

@YM-zz5qq

2 жыл бұрын

@@justgivemethetruth nah, mostly just Trump and his supporters.

@justgivemethetruth

2 жыл бұрын

@@YM-zz5qq I'd like to think that, but it's just not true.

I loved his show Cosmos, it really inspired me when I was growing up. It was so awesome!

This is, oh man, there are so many words for this...sobering is one word that comes to mind. Thank you for this.

If Carl Sagan were alive today, the Trump cult would call for his imprisonment.

@professordogwood8985

2 жыл бұрын

If Carl Sagan were alive today, none of the Trump followers would have any idea who he is.

@jakeplourde

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, if he were alive today, he’d be trying to claw his way out of the casket.

@philscott7949

2 жыл бұрын

They chanted "lock up Fauci" at the mass infection events.

@smiller2044

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakeplourde 😁 zombie Sagan might not be a great idea. . .

@atomicsmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@philscott7949 He funded the Wuhan lab and then lied to congress about it. He's knowingly lied about all kinds of things throughout the pandemic from masks, to the possibility of a lab leak, to his involvement with social media censorship. I'm pretty sure several of those instances count as perjury, criminal negligence or malfeasance. Seems like a good candidate for legal action wouldn't you agree?

"The United States has gone from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization." - Albert Einstein

@karllansche9843

2 жыл бұрын

That was Oscar Wild as far as I know. My apologies if I am wrong Could be of French origin to. But Its a great quote,

@Bertrand146

2 жыл бұрын

@@karllansche9843 You might be right! It sounds more like O.Wild than Einstein (he finished his life in America and this quote wouldn't have helped).

@wordsculpt

2 жыл бұрын

@@karllansche9843 Wilde.

@karllansche9843

2 жыл бұрын

@@wordsculpt Wilde of course. thanks !

@briangriffin8106

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect words to sum up a nation in a single sentence.

Truly the definition of ahead of his time

“Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true.” Wow

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -Isaac Asimov (1980)

@grantlong6586

2 жыл бұрын

Isaac was a dirty old man that aussalted young women.

@Billkwando

2 жыл бұрын

@@grantlong6586 Cool story bro.

@Billkwando

2 жыл бұрын

@@grantlong6586 Be Best.

@lindalazarus6403

2 жыл бұрын

@@Billkwando :)

@troubledsole9104

2 жыл бұрын

@@grantlong6586 have we come to this? Not everything has to be negative. Be better than that Sis.

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." - Carl Sagan

@twilightgardenspresentatio6384

2 жыл бұрын

The failure of the public school system is cultural and intentional

@AndiDuck

2 жыл бұрын

@@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 Whatever troll! The topic is Carl Sagan ! Try to keep up !

@billybarnes1763

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndiDuck sounds like you got left behind brother.

@AndiDuck

2 жыл бұрын

@@billybarnes1763 You sound like one of those weirdos who thinks the only gender on social media is male.

@billybarnes1763

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndiDuck wtf are you talking about? Do you even know? How far left behind are you? Getting a lil desperate....

"The Demon Haunted World" should be required reading. It's a depressingly accurate prediction of the shitshow we're in.

Carl died when I was a young boy, but boy oh boy did he change my life forever.

"A celebration of ignorance" hit it on the head with that one

@dryroasted5599

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much describes the last four years!

@josephlinden1630

2 жыл бұрын

@@dryroasted5599 lol, no. Biden is destroying America. But that barbecue tho.

@jamespatrick3462

2 жыл бұрын

Twitter and TikTok

@randybong5578

2 жыл бұрын

@Blue Jazz MSNBC Lawyers DON'T CLAIM THEIR ANCHORS ARE ENTERTAINERS FOX DOES. GOING SO FAR AS TO ADMITTING ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE NEWS ARE IDIOTS

@romeoromero808

2 жыл бұрын

@Blue Jazz you're reaching, I think he meant the media as whole and how it would influence people who don't question where the information comes from. The dumbed the better

Carl Sagan was a rare American sage. He foresaw the frightful descent into barbaric celebration of ignorance we witness today.

@markbernhardt6281

2 жыл бұрын

No greater statement was made with fewer words.

@pamelaneibuhr6959

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏼

@robotron17

2 жыл бұрын

*CELEBRATION OF IGNORANCE:* Wearing a sticker BRAGGING that you took an experimental vaccine with zero long-term safety data made by known criminals who lie about trial data for something that has a 99.95% survival rate for people under 50. "Pfizer has been a habitual offender, persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results." - PubMed

@chattemr5992

2 жыл бұрын

@@markbernhardt6281 : Thanks so much. Carl Sagan, in both science and humanities, was a seer and a breath of fresh air. The world desperately needs more enlightened beings like him.

@tinat.4508

2 жыл бұрын

robotron17 I see you got down the rabbit hole good 🙄

....they say Truth Conquers All...Mr.C.Sagan was a definition of that...pure, true and humble too

I clicked for Carl Sagan, got Brian Williams. Shouldn't have ignored the MSNBC logo ...

Just another example of what happens when "smart" people do not get the amount of press as singers and actors

@jaydid-musicianfromthefutu55

2 жыл бұрын

...the amount of time as dumb people

@ginodc5944

2 жыл бұрын

I have often thought of that but somehow it is difficult to gather a crowd in a stadium around a group of scientists doing lab work for the next discovery. Perhaps more scientists should get more publicity for their accomplishments. However, I fear that there may be a hurdle to understanding what they did compared to someone putting a ball in a net.

@phuturelee3420

2 жыл бұрын

People who tell the truth don't get fanfare. George Carlin always did. He was a legend. When he passed it was like "oh yeah comedian George Carlin died". All just to redirect people away from the truth about how we royally messed things up? It's right there in front of us. Most of us just want quality of life to improve. We are wasting time following social media.

@kevinkennedy5937

2 жыл бұрын

celebration of ignorance? SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THEM DARN RALLIES TO ME, WHAT Y'ALL THINK

@tonyp2865

2 жыл бұрын

@Captain Obvious 'We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor.' Professor Julius Sumner Miller. 1940

I miss that brilliant man. I miss the calm inflection of his voice and the concise and articulate way he explained the Universe. RIP Carl Sagan.

@Dan_Ben_Michael

2 жыл бұрын

The world is poorer without his intelligence and wisdom.

@mlblja

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dan_Ben_Michael Also, richer for having him here to lift us up.

@stovingtonprep3783

2 жыл бұрын

I thought you were talking about Johnny Carson; then I got to the end of your eulogy and stood corrected!😅

@pureenergy4578

2 жыл бұрын

Death is a ponzi scheme proven by quantum physics a long time ago.

@scasey1960

2 жыл бұрын

There are any others, if you choose to listen.

LOL he was describing msnbc and their viewers

Sagan understood, as few do, both that physical laws obey, and that people are flawed.

When being a scientist, doctor or intellectual is a negative trait to so many people it’s become a very scary and sad world.

@alabastergreen7444

2 жыл бұрын

It's a return to the European dark ages

@mlblja

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure you can thank religions for that!

@GordoGambler

2 жыл бұрын

@@mlblja ... The GloBULL warming religion. Zuckerberg has appointed himself the GOD of LEFTYISM. All anti-dogma dissenters are HERETICS.

@alabastergreen7444

2 жыл бұрын

@@GordoGambler I think you just proved melvins point

@mlblja

2 жыл бұрын

@@GordoGambler Thank you. I'd rather have truth than an imaginary voice from the sky guiding my morals. People like you abandon even the most primary rules of your chosen religion in the names of people that never existed.

Sagan would be horrified to know those "10 second sound bites" have been reduced to mouse clicks.

@katieann9026

2 жыл бұрын

Literally just headlines. People get their news from headlines.

@DamienEarth

2 жыл бұрын

You’re both behind .. memes and tweets with a character limit. You’re left to interpret them however you can because there will never be any context ..

@duewhit310

2 жыл бұрын

My expert says so He speaks for us

@noone6559

2 жыл бұрын

Or extended to a whole show by Tucker Carlson...

@binkysphinx

2 жыл бұрын

He wouldn't have been horrified, he would have anticipated it as the natural next step in the regressive evolution of human consumption.

We're doomed and we all just sit back and watch it. I hope we all have the courage to do the right thing when the time comes. God bless us all at the end of the day We're only human.

In 1974 a PSA by Leonard Nimoy said we would soon die of a ice age 2022 I'm still here

I am a peon with a BA who loudly shouted the same sentiments over 20 years ago. It didn't take an astrophysicist to see where America was headed.

@swayback7375

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it may not require an astrophysicist, but obviously many of us don’t or didn’t have the requisite skills to see that, at least not many of us… that said, Im in the south, poor education, I didn’t even graduate and I could see the writing on the wall 20 years ago too… I think others were concerned about it even 50+ years ago. They were shouted down, shamed and called names for their concerns for humanity and the system that we rely on, I’m not sure things are one bit better now, just further advanced.

@abelis644

2 жыл бұрын

True.

@abelis644

2 жыл бұрын

@@swayback7375 It's never too late to graduate if you wanted to. There's lots of help out there. Good luck.

I went to my first Star Trek convention dressed as Chewbacca. It was a Wookiee mistake.

@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168

2 жыл бұрын

I got a bad feeling about this

@talyn3932

2 жыл бұрын

Must have been a bit of a Hairy situation.

@juliashireen6195

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@anomaloussapien4903

2 жыл бұрын

Love it! 😆lolololololololololol 😆

@KeripiK_CTMM

2 жыл бұрын

i assume things really got out of Han-d

Chewbacca not getting a medal bugged me, too!

Irony, that a media company guilty of what he accused reports it as if they are not so.

Some people are pure light in the darkness .. we miss you Carl Sagan. RIP

@alphabravo8703

2 жыл бұрын

... and Christopher Hitchens.

@kristofferhellstrom

2 жыл бұрын

@@alphabravo8703 Indeed! Love Christopher Hitchens. As a person living outside the United states and being young i just learned about these two people a couple of years ago.

@floatsting20

2 жыл бұрын

@@kristofferhellstrom Carl's explaining dumbing down. That would explain Brian Williams

@amywalker7515

2 жыл бұрын

Remember Piggy in Lord of the Flies? Same thing. The only one making sense was killed.

Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" is a must-read for every thinking human being.

@SimonBissell

2 жыл бұрын

Preach. Irony noted.

@oculusnomadslosttribe5672

2 жыл бұрын

Ummm Thank You…I’m buying the book…🤔🧐

@CaminoAir

2 жыл бұрын

The section 'Baloney Detection Kit' is essential reading. It's worth buying the book alone for.

@onlythewise1

2 жыл бұрын

not

@A._is_for

2 жыл бұрын

Put it on my wishlist

Even this was a soundbite. Read the book. Well worth your time. Progress isn't inevitable. It depends on how informed you are, and the choices you and everyone else make.

He represented the best of humanity and still does.

He knew how stupid we were and would be and currently are

@shanehughes8528

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt.

@matok2426

2 жыл бұрын

@@normalguycap And who put them in charge?

@4tarsus

2 жыл бұрын

George Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.”

@Rob_G716

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly- we have Biden / democrats destroying every state they control and we’re so stupid, they we elect these idiots to the highest power of office. Hope you’re practicing your Mandarin. China 🇨🇳 is coming

@watamatafoyu

2 жыл бұрын

The smartest of us pull the rest of us forward, the dumbest drag us down.

That excerpt gave me chills. That guy was a visionary. Too bad no one listened hard enough to stop it.

@josephlocher5958

2 жыл бұрын

If I only had the money, support and like minded individuals who thought like myself. Carl Sagan Shaped my life in so many ways...I still think of him fondly in these days gone by. Seems less than a parsec ago

Sagan was "The Star of the Stars", as one journalist termed him at the time of his passing. Sagan was a great popularizer who really connected with the average guy in the street. I loved Sagan's "Cosmos" series & never missed one of his Carson appearances, or, later, his Charlie Rose interviews(though I was no fan of Rose in general as an interviewer). The astrophysicist made astronomy truly cool, though I was interested long before Sagan came on the scene. The man took a number of hits from his professional colleagues in those years, deriding his academic work & denigrating his rising fame as a mere popularizer, not a serious scientist. Jealousy & envy certainly played a part in their criticisms, which I believe were unmerited. Sagan appealed to a still-literate & intelligent, curious citizenry in the mid-70's, something largely missing from today's dumbed-down society, WAY dumbed-down. The generation of the post moon-landings, of which I was a member, had become aware as to how alone we are in the universe & were both mesmerized & enchanted by "what's out there". Sagan made our queasiness & fascination over this understandable, thought-provoking, & wonderfully philosophical. After Watergate, the population had become thoroughly cynical toward the U.S. government, its institutions, & the meaningless promises of politicians. Astronomy became one of the last untainted verities we could focus on, a way to "escape" our earthbound problems, disappointments, & increasing dissatisfaction with all levels of government in general, a chance to "get outside of ourselves", at least for a little while. Sagan provided this escape & alot of us, myself included, were more than receptive to it. The awe & wonder he made us feel has, I'm afraid, vanished entirely in our own decadent, downward-spiralling age, one bereft of inspirational imagination. I still miss Mr. Sagan, every time I gaze at the night-sky, dreaming of what's "out-there", just as he did.

Brian Williams adds an extra later of trustworthiness to this segment. Well done!

If only being smart and educated meant something to virtually everyone like it used to.

@Nightbird.

2 жыл бұрын

Trump MAGA followers and Covidiots are proof of the dumbing down of America.

@janetduncan87

2 жыл бұрын

Because being book smart doesn't mean you have common sense or can think for yourself. Usually. I do think he was able to collect information he received and he was able to break it down and put it into his own way of thinking. He was obviously able to think for himself and not take everything he was taught from books as the truth. Using star wars is a good example of what we are. All the different creatures resemble different cultures and stero types. It doesn't mean there are other Galaxys, but its symbolic to the nature of ppl, and quite possibly our future.

@charleshartlen3914

2 жыл бұрын

@@janetduncan87 hi how are you? explain how cancer research is a common sense or related to common sense or requires common sense to save millions of lives? In this way many of our societal issues are exterior to what common sense solutions can address. Thanks and read a book

@TheShattenjager

2 жыл бұрын

Just please not the bible lol.

@user8ZAKC1X6KC

2 жыл бұрын

People have never wanted to be smart and educated. They just have ALWAYS thought they already are.

The problem is most people WANT to live within their illusions.

@jobob47

2 жыл бұрын

its easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. human nature.

@SmashinAdams

2 жыл бұрын

Right, or rather their 'delusions'; Ignorance isn't 'bliss'. It can actually turn quickly into willful schizophrenia.

@jannacoyote4246

2 жыл бұрын

That's because the late 20th century & the current 21st century realities have thoroughly *sucked* so far.

@srbaruchi

2 жыл бұрын

@@jobob47 You just explained MAGA loyalism.

@dke17

2 жыл бұрын

Ignorance is bliss, after all...

Celebration of ignorance is the right word!!!Amazingly explained!

We need you now more than ever Carl.

"Big bellies, fat thighs, and dumb kids." -George Carlin

@emiliaabeyta159

2 жыл бұрын

I listen to his videos now more than I did when he was alive. He didn't care for Organized Relugions Either. Or Consumerism. What would he have to say about the nit wits flying aroynd the planet while the earth is burning up? Maybe something like "I hope they. are enjoying the veiw."

@isha9300

2 жыл бұрын

😃?

@Cheetah-tz3ut

2 жыл бұрын

@@isha9300 i think that quote is about life the man gets overweight as he ages he married a woman with nice legs and now has to raise their annoying kids

@ronndapagan

2 жыл бұрын

The kids that have a disability work harder than the "dumb and normal"kids.

@land7776

2 жыл бұрын

@@emiliaabeyta159 is ORE an organization?

Every word in that quote is an undeniable truth of our present state of being. Sometimes I dread being around for the next 20 years, because how badly things are right now.

@randygibbons7817

2 жыл бұрын

There's a chance we'll be here to see things get better.

@Ian_Carolan

2 жыл бұрын

@@randygibbons7817 Given the lobbying by the fossil fuel industry on the policy of the US that chance is deliberately being shrunk by corruption, greed and self interest.

@smokingthereefer92

2 жыл бұрын

To copy the words of the great George Carlin.. "it's never gonna get any better. Don't look forward to it. Be happy with what you got."

@dls951

2 жыл бұрын

If you listen to the crowd react to Segan's comments you'll notice laughter, back then they call such comments humor.

@isabt4

2 жыл бұрын

Keep the faith, we all need to, and try to be the best we can ❤️

I'll clutch crystals before I listen to MSNBC thanks.

I have always been amazed with what Carl Sagan had to say!!! great thinker!!!

Boy that last sentence about the media was right on. They are a huge factor in the "dumbing down......".

@dangeroustoaster2688

2 жыл бұрын

This one and all. We have great mistakes to correct. And there’s no point in even explaining them anymore. I’ve given up. People truly are ignorant.

@Brendan-Black

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielcurcio6642 This channel is what brought Sagan's prescient words to peoples' attention. The media Mr. Sagan was alluding to was obviously rightwing propaganda garbage like OAN, Newsmax, and FoxNews. Evidently you're one of the ignorant and misinformed that desperately needs to get out of his safe little echo chamber bubble.

2 жыл бұрын

@@Brendan-Black hahaha. Take it from someone who is from former socialists country, under the government which consist of former socialist we couldn't lustrate, people like you will bring democracy down. We all use to look up to USA, now we lough at you, you are becoming more communist then we ever was and that is sad. Deevolution at work!

@expromanticart6491

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot Trump!

@paulsholar9356

2 жыл бұрын

Ever hear of the US FCC's Fairness Doctrine?

"In science, it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." - Carl Sagan

@freshstart4423

2 жыл бұрын

So we can circumvent the politics by re-register as no party voters and no party candidates. His degrees are worthless. We can circumvent criminal lawyers with federal licensing of lawyers without the BAR ASSOCIATION. then they can't reduce their own felonies to a misdemeanor and continue to practice law. We can reduce Healthcare costs by telling every doctor to treat every patient without designating a "specialist " for an extra charge.

@JoelMcLaughlin

2 жыл бұрын

Carl just not have studied religion much....

@briangeiger9307

2 жыл бұрын

Change never happen? Wasn't it happening the entire summer with business burned down and statues pulled down. Every person said I was wrong, but now I am "woke". Every four years, we change political party. Isn't that change. We voted for one party, then realize they were wrong, then we go the other way. When was the last time scientist admitted the origin of life on this planet is completely impossible. Having life travel to us from another life bearing planet is practically impossible as well. I am still waiting for scientist to say they were wrong when they said COVID can never come from a lab.

@peterwilson8039

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoelMcLaughlin Religion is based on faith. A rejection of faith is heresy.

@novida4770

2 жыл бұрын

@@briangeiger9307 scientists such as the head of the Wuhan lab came out days after the outbreak saying it could've been/most likely been a viral leak due to mismanagement of funds. It wasn't the scientists covering up a story... the outbreak and its handling by rich folk and rich politicians, supports sagans theory.

That is terrifyingly accurate

So glad I discovered Carl and his work through a song I heard last year..

We should listen to more intellectuals and scholars. Hello? Studying never stops.

@georgeb.wolffsohn30

2 жыл бұрын

You mean the intellectual elite 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱❗

@ARIZJOE

2 жыл бұрын

That's right. Yes, there are the uneducated. But it's not a lack of education or degrees per se. A lot of people have an aversion to learning in this country. Hence, the contempt for experts. Studying never stops and it begins with critical reading. Many can't do that, and they don't have a factory to keep busy.

@chrismacks3640

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still learning

@soulife8383

2 жыл бұрын

That makes you a radical leftist in 2021 though. Bigly.

@smexehcougah3

2 жыл бұрын

I think that people who are of the perspective that it is NOT necessary to continue studying throughout their entire lives should be incarcerated for the safety and security of everyone else.

An absolute legend. I'd argue his greatest contribution to science was his ability to make it accessible to everyone. He could take incredibly complex ideas and simplify them enough for the average person to understand without coming off as condescending.

@danceblues1713

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Well said!💕

@wordsculpt

2 жыл бұрын

The way to distinguish between an informed and intelligent person, and someone who Really knows their stuff, is that the first resort to jargon, and the second understand the information so well that they can think of a dozen everyday examples!

Segan passed away, he now has answers to truth that the majority if not all of us alive don't fully know.

Remember when we thought 2021 was a mess??😂😂😂

Isaac Asimov is another notable voice that predicted the future. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Issac Asimov 1980 (41 years ago)

@JoMactheJ

2 жыл бұрын

Isaac, who's up in Heaven now, could easily have also have forseen that modern info-tainment substitutes enriching programming for Ancient Aliens, critical commentary for pundits that argue they aren't to be believed in court, and politicians that embrace the easy appeals to chauvinism and nationalism. So it goes

@MrBenjaminette

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoMactheJ Not up in heaven, he was an atheist so knew heaven does not exist.

@jerrylanglois7892

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, dumin down an its getten more worser.

You know, as a 41 year old, I feel like life has bullied me so much, that I keep my head down, read my sci-fi books, and buy something cool off of Amazon every now and then. I genuinely feel like nothing short of major economic, revolutionary, or global war will change things much. So instead, I stay informed, I vote, but I know we’re collectively eyeing our foot with a shotgun. As an idealist who loved history and civics when I was young, I truly bought into everything our founding fathers established (almost everything, I’m black). But when you get older, work, have a mortgage, you become disillusioned with seeing how everyone in power games the system. To the point, that well meaning people are conditioned to play the game when they first get power. Democratic or Republican, we should be a stronger republic with more quality, fact driven non-biased news, strong STEM and civics for students in order to raise quality citizens who work together. Anyways, I’m rambling, so I’ll put my head back down.

@spottss

Жыл бұрын

We need more of your input please keep going

@robertnorwood9480

Жыл бұрын

Keep your head up brother! You spoke your peace quietly and clearly.

@aidanwuryan1008

Жыл бұрын

I appreciated reading your thoughts man!

@RobinHerzig

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree - and it's exactly why Sagan's predictions hit so hard (minor critique, hit ‘return’ when you feel like rambling 😏)

@failyourwaytothetop

Жыл бұрын

You're obviously a cut above the rest. Watch the movie Idiocracy. It's a funny movie which presents a future society 500 years from now where the average IQ is about 30.

He absolutely got a medal.

“Wookiees!? You mean WOKIES!!” -Ron Desantis, probably

Truth be told, most people in my generation could see this coming, as unfettered capitalism is bound to lead to fascism.

@garyoa1

2 жыл бұрын

And it really took root with the first "stab" at trickle down. Rapidly eroding the middle class. And... here we go again.

@spacelemur7955

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I emigrated from the US almost 40 years ago. Reagan's "Morning in America" was a rejection of the lessons of Vietnam War, the Great Society, and Civil Rights. It's when conservatives started ridiculing compasion as "political correctness" and championed "greed is good" and trickle down.

@Jhoekstra

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism in the current form is highly destructive.

@thomasmccracken8819

2 жыл бұрын

Malignant Capitalism.

@user-gk1be8tf6b

2 жыл бұрын

@@spacelemur7955 Where to?

_“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”_ -Carl Sagan *We* _are the_ *Universe* _manifest conscious. The Cosmos getting to know itself._

@brianmax1301

Жыл бұрын

Mejiora he said that long before he passed away . I am so glad he became a believer on his death bed . Nice try tho .

@rustyoak8860

Жыл бұрын

@@brianmax1301 became a believer? As in God? Talk about the biggest bamboozle in human history, and as he said, it's too painful for any believer to acknowledge it's all just a story like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, just not as good.

@chuckmaceanruig

Жыл бұрын

@@brianmax1301 "There was no deathbed conversion," Druyan says. "No appeals to God, no hope for an afterlife, no pretending that he and I, who had been inseparably for twenty years, were not saying goodbye forever." "Didn't he want to believe?" she was asked. "Carl never wanted to believe," she replies fiercely. "He wanted to KNOW." Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's wife, from Newsweek

@brianmax1301

Жыл бұрын

@@chuckmaceanruig Quoting Newsweek is like quoting CNN . LOL

@chuckmaceanruig

Жыл бұрын

@@brianmax1301 Denying reality is a sign of psychosis.

Wow, just wow! And I have both of those two books mentioned. I'll be hanging onto them for sure.

80% of the comments on this thread perfectly prove his point.

The pale blue dot. Carl gifts us so much truth, eloquently delivered.

@4uanC

2 жыл бұрын

Christian from WWE?

@LordRothschild666

2 жыл бұрын

Sagan Gang

My religious denomination is unapologetically "Sagan". I passionately watched "Cosmos" as a teenager and I recall my dad once commenting , "You are even starting to sound like him." Sagan inspired my choice of college courses. He was a HUGE influence on my life.

@CanonicalVariable

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! I went into theoretical physics because of Sagan.

@4343DEB

2 жыл бұрын

Well done...there are few people who deserve the status of being the epitome of greatness.

@berthabridges3483

2 жыл бұрын

He had a beautiful mind.

The reality is that so many people are incredibly smarter and knowledgable than ever before. What's happening is the gap between the average person and someone with a degree is widening. People will think they understand but the reality is all they've done is spent the last 30 mins on the internet searching for answers that fit their narrative. No, people are not becoming dumber. If anything we're far more capable now than we were just 20 years ago. It's the disparity between truth and what people ultimately choose to believe.

I love Carl Sagan and his Kermit-the-Frog like voice.

A celebration of ignorance. Perfectly said Carl Sagan.

@Grunchy005

2 жыл бұрын

It’s easier to go to church and leave all the thinking to your exploiters. It’s hard to grab a brain when you don’t have one...

@grandwonder5858

2 жыл бұрын

"A celebration of ignorance" --- Republican slogan.

@petyrkowalski9887

2 жыл бұрын

That sums up any and all cults and organised religion, Trump included.

@onlythewise1

2 жыл бұрын

he was very ignorant

@sarahshah7932

2 жыл бұрын

@@onlythewise1 Crikey! Just how many degrees do you hold, if you think a man with 4 degrees was ignorant?👀

nobody could say the word 'billions' like good ol' Dr. Carl

@02markcal

2 жыл бұрын

I remember being in my teens in my living room listening on a small transistor radio to Carl talk and just being mesmerized by the way he made space sound so intriguing.

@weareparamore1597

2 жыл бұрын

Billions in billions

@randygibbons7817

2 жыл бұрын

The antithesis of Trump's billions.

@EuroScot2023

2 жыл бұрын

Wait! The Trumpist idiots would say he couldn't call himself Dr Sagan because he's not a medic.

@arlenmargolin1650

2 жыл бұрын

I think McDonald's was about to launch an advertising campaign using Carl Sagan to proclaim that there were billions and billions served

Carl Sagan has one of the most satisfying voices ever.

Thanks finally MSNBC for being honest of what an intellect says! Please more of this!