The Heresy of being Honest
The inaugural episode of #ThePoetryOfReality is finally here! Join me & Ricky Gervais, actor, writer, irreverent comedian & poignant tragedian. CFI gave him the 2019 Richard Dawkins Award. Then I had an on-stage conversation with him & Richard Wiseman, psychologist, comedian & conjuror.
Lots of laughs, lots to think about. See for yourself.
Richard Dawkins
A disturbing 1995 prediction by Carl Sagan accurately describes America today
Here’s what the inimitable Carl Sagan wrote:
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. 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 key 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.”
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/a-prophetic-1995-quote-from-carl-sagan-perfectly-describes-america-of-today/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3sIhzpuvcK9LL8_kwOdJgAoJvvRQz4ijrMrjKW-au_Ja_gLqdBoVepxeg_aem_AQxaq8wOePevFHFtm6r8iQs3qjAknQauos0RcsFBlTXGIvkUT6ilJXJbnmy9er7N_Lk&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#Echobox=1688011225
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I was looking forward to an essay with this title :)