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Arthur_Frain

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52. That book is one of the reasons I keep hard copies of media I value.
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 03:35 AM
Feb 2020

When everything started becoming cloud stored, and everything, I mean everything, was being digitized, and then that was the only format it was available in, I immediately thought to myself

but this is the part where the pigs start changing the words on the wall!”.

Life imitates art.

The Demon-Haunted World [View all] kpete Feb 2020 OP
Just got a chill reading this. Zoonart Feb 2020 #1
Same here! JudyM Feb 2020 #6
You both should humor me DENVERPOPS Feb 2020 #31
I save the following for threads like this Bob Loblaw Feb 2020 #36
Interesting. Mencken was talking about the dangers of direct PatrickforO Feb 2020 #42
Suffice it to say, "stupid" people voted for trump Bob Loblaw Feb 2020 #44
Love it......N/////c DENVERPOPS Feb 2020 #46
Definitely! JudyM Feb 2020 #45
Don't think that is going to happen DENVERPOPS Feb 2020 #47
That book is one of the reasons I keep hard copies of media I value. Arthur_Frain Feb 2020 #52
And a prophet is just someone with enough sense to think ahead... FiveGoodMen Feb 2020 #26
Here's my 2-second sound bite: Educate the electorate. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2020 #2
You can take a horse to water.... Happy Hoosier Feb 2020 #5
Yep! It's really, really hard to educate the willfully ignorant... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #7
The willfully ignorant -- Yes! King_Klonopin Feb 2020 #54
And as they get away from Ma and Pa MAGAt, Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2020 #9
I hope so. Happy Hoosier Feb 2020 #10
Hi HH Bob Loblaw Feb 2020 #35
I also like a takeoff on the horse saying, "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her Karadeniz Feb 2020 #27
I gave up trying to educate them. Hotler Feb 2020 #55
Insightful, right up until he disses Dumb and Dumber. BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #3
Yeah, I mean even Lloyd Christmas can appreciate knowledge... blugbox Feb 2020 #33
Carl probably never saw it. BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #57
Not everyone who likes a movie or TV show soldierant Feb 2020 #38
K&R smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #4
Kick & recommend. bronxiteforever Feb 2020 #8
"A celebration of ignorance" Mister Ed Feb 2020 #11
That jumped out They_Live Feb 2020 #20
Got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach reading this. How foretelling. Fla Dem Feb 2020 #12
It's from 1995. We just somehow survived Reaganomics and his CaptYossarian Feb 2020 #17
I wonder whether his reaction to cable TV stations like Science and History RVN VET71 Feb 2020 #13
How about The Learning Channel (TLC)? CaptYossarian Feb 2020 #18
All of them, except maybe the Smithsonian RVN VET71 Feb 2020 #49
Fred Allen also said this: CaptYossarian Feb 2020 #56
Kick dalton99a Feb 2020 #14
One Ingersollman Feb 2020 #15
Thanks for posting a quote from this great book! klook Feb 2020 #16
I'm re-reading this book right now Dukkha Feb 2020 #19
What an incredible human being. CrispyQ Feb 2020 #21
Thank you for this. volstork Feb 2020 #22
Thank you, kpete Hekate Feb 2020 #23
Totally agree! Mickju Feb 2020 #24
Sagan feared the influence of entertainment and pseudoscience muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #25
He left us too soon. We need thinkers. Karadeniz Feb 2020 #28
One of my favorite books MythosMaster Feb 2020 #29
A prescient scientist though that could be a contradiction in terms? yonder Feb 2020 #30
And this was before Twitter and Fakebook and after the film Network. BigmanPigman Feb 2020 #32
a life changing book for me. mopinko Feb 2020 #34
10-second sound bites -- a.k.a. "Tweets" Blue Owl Feb 2020 #37
Snopes says this is accurate and the actual quote text. erronis Feb 2020 #39
Two healthcare workers that come to my Ilsa Feb 2020 #40
Truer Words Were Never Written... StarzGuy Feb 2020 #41
Yup, it was going on in Sagan's lifetime misanthrope Feb 2020 #50
Sagan saw clearly. PatrickforO Feb 2020 #43
Yes. Dear Carl. coti Feb 2020 #48
Antidote: Elizabeth Warren. dchill Feb 2020 #51
I read that book Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #53
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