Fwd: Carl Sagan predicted 2021 in 1995

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From: Steve Ruggieri <s.ruggieri54@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 16:55
Subject: Carl Sagan predicted 2021 in 1995
To: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>

A disturbing 1995 prediction by Carl Sagan accurately describes America of today.

This quote from a 1995 book [Demon Haunted World] by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.

"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