Carl Sagan's insights were far ahead of his time.
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How do skyscrapers hold themselves up? Where is data on the distribution of steel down the Twin Towers? Did Level 105 contain the same amount of steel as level 5 which had to support the weight of 21 times as many stories???
Now Physics is History!🗼
Acoustics?
Yes, the acoustics.
my grandfather read the wall street journal, and watched the free news
he said the same shit.
A pattern of alignment, coherence, and complexity that can help us outgrow the traps we’re in.
I’ve been mapping it in threads (still in progress, I'm on Orange right now):
https://bsky.app/profile/infinitenuance.bsky.social/post/3loltglrzj22u
We were just saying like
“It’s gonna be Fk’d up in the future”
We do?
Oh wait.
"Holy Shit, I'm old!"
https://youtu.be/q_qgVn-Op7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjx5L5Po4yI
Imagine there are two people in room filled with gasoline, one had one match and one has two.
And it was pretty clear in the mid/late 90's at this point, where this was all headed.
Love Sagan, love DHW, but this insight was already pretty clear.
If you want your mind blown, Plato talked about it in, gasp, 380 CE. ;)
Yes, the same people that call you a “libtard” will also call you snooty or elitist when you them out for misinformation or lie.
Me? I’m not the gambling type. I want to cover all bases…no rolling of the dice. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. Won’t be the first time (but it will be the last…haha)
Sadly, it goes to show how very long this slide into stupidity has been going on.
The rightwing of the time, then called the “Tea Party”, were the forerunners of today’s MAGA.
Shades of things to come during the Bush years. Nobody took them seriously.
Here's the problem: it was the educated, intelligent people in the US who decided after the Vietnam War that it was necessary to prevent debate on media about unsavory policies.
But it is nonetheless striking.
My first album was Burnt Weeny Sandwich...
https://youtu.be/Dtk2gozGtbg?si=idR7BlAV2kksHNW_
We’re totally going to make it through this just fine. 👀
I’m sick and tired of hypocritical “Christian” leaders influencing our society’s leaders, school boards, news media, etc…!
Separation of Church from State! Keep religion OUT of our bedrooms & classrooms! ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿
He was emphasizing our deep, literal connection to the universe.
Not just glitz and glimmer.
Warning us of possibilities of what might go wrong.
He absolutely Nailed It.
Americans, you have some important work to do.
First you have to boot out the orange fascist.
Second you have to apologize to all your allies.
Third repair your government.
And finally say you're sorry to the people you have hurt and killed by electing Trump.
Also yeah, that passage is fire. It’s haunted me since I first read it. Though it’s not crystals and horoscopes, it’s crucifixes and Bibles.
And here we are
We Walked Right Into it.
How
Simple
For 25 years we Kept picking the Lesser Evil.
Not much difference from the one we hated but still not a Shining Light.
So Inch By Inch we Built this Crap.
ACTION BY THE PEOPLE WILL!
Eg. We all knew.