[DallasBiff]

I was hesitant about posting this.

The first part of the interview Sagan sounds like the author of CRT, but then Brian Williams quotes Carl Sagan from his last book, and my god it sounds like today, and Brian Williams thinks Sagan is taking about us great unwashed, but Sagan is surmising about, Soros, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and company.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Poor ol’ Carl always thought with the Little Head.

It was just a question of which one was littler.

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

Of course, Peter Jennings thinks we’re the ignorant ones, and he and his ilk are the saviors of the universe.

[Kickass Conservative]

The difference between then and now.

Sagan’s catch phrase would be “Trillions and Trillions”, not “Billions and Billions”.

[reintarnation]

Seems like he got it absolutely correct...

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 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…

[devane617]

Yea, and I’ve been predicting the downfall for the past 50+ years.

[SecondAmendment]

I have watched “Cosmos” a googolplex times, first when it aired on PBS, then on DVD, but with age I have noticed the pinko-commie-lib stuff he snuck into the show more and more, especially the “surrender our nukes because we (i.e the West) will blow up the planet” propaganda wrapped in a turtleneck sweater and corduroy sports jacket with elbow patches beta male ensemble ...

[PGR88]

Wookie lives matter

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Robert DeLong]

And he was talking Brian Williams, and other journalists, as well. Poor Brian doesn't even make that connection apparently.

But honestly I was talking about how education really was dumbing down our future generations back then, and I am no genius. Even though I was a product of that dumbing down process, my parents had given me enough information for me to see that as I got older. That's when I started educating myself more. Still missed a lot, but not as much as many others had. 😋

In other words, all it really required was to pay attention to what was happening.

In fact there was a book Published September 15th 1996 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published 1995):

So Carl wasn't fore-telling the future at all, he was seeing what was going on and commented about it.

[Revel]

You can bet that he was in on the planning to make this happen. It was all planned out. How to manipulate people and destroy western civilization. The prize is to control everyone and everything.

[Doc91678]

Surely Carl Sagan was on the mark except America had become a service related country two years before he claimed it was become a service state.
The day Clinton signed the NAFTA agreement America became a second rate country. That was 1993.
Strangely that was exactly what Trump attempted to change by forcing China with Tariffs and enticing manufacturing to return to the U.S.
Joey Xi has changed it all back to the status quo and is allowing the Covid resurgence by spreading unvaccinated and Covid infected illegal aliens to be spread around the country.

[Doc91678]

Surely Carl Sagan was on the mark except America had become a service related country two years before he claimed it was become a service state.
The day Clinton signed the NAFTA agreement America became a second rate country. That was 1993.
Strangely that was exactly what Trump attempted to change by forcing China with Tariffs and enticing manufacturing to return to the U.S.
Joey Xi has changed it all back to the status quo and is allowing the Covid resurgence by spreading unvaccinated and Covid infected illegal aliens to be spread around the country.

[Albion Wilde]

Our White House Wookie didn’t earn no respect, either.