Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago
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- Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 when he was writing a book published just before his death in 1996. MSNBC's Brian Williams shares the details.
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#MSNBC #CarlSagan #2021
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
Isaac Asimov.
"I have hairy legs"
A senile crook.
“I never had sexual relations with that woman”
A sexual predator from Arkansas.
@@Bruv234 What does this have to do with this subject matter? Think about that, if you can.
@@sampleis
*Tara Reade*
Funny thing is, that what hypocritically shocked you so much about T locker room talk, back then,
_"they LET YOU grab them by the P"_
is what B DID,
plus, he refuses to release the evidence.
You didn't "THINK" much about that. Did you, *hypocrite* ?
Ask, Kamala..... 🤫
@@Z1BABOUINOS Let's see this "evidence"...or STFU
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov
That's an on point quote from Asimov (who was a very imaginative and influential author).
Beautiful. It's true.
Exactly my point on the weakness of democracy. If to that we add that the people educated/capable of making the "right" calls (pandemics, climate change, etc...) are in a minority and that a substantial amount of the majority could be "easily" mislead or manipulated then we are simply doomed.
This is it right here
The founding fathers grappled with that. That’s why the Senate was not elected by popular vote in the beginning
"Celebration of ignorance" is what I call social media.
Carl Sagan hit the nail on the head right there. It's quite depressing really.
Good luck and Good night to all.
when people are “unable to set their own agendas” and “unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true” hit hard
and he’s so right about the dumbing down in media and shorter attention spans. back in the day focus was a given. now I look at how unrealistic modern cartoons or movies are compared to 30-50 years ago
@@iceswallow7717 Funny, that he was meaning superstitious people and the fundamentalist religious rejecting science, not the rise of far-right extremists using fascist tactics to ban books, attack teachers and professors, rejecting medical professionals' advice, demonizing minority groups and so on.
Naah.
Social media is not the Blame, it just added Fuel and momentum to an already utterly dumb, self absorbed, borderline illiterate, obese and truly clueless country.
Truth.
I wonder if Brian Williams recognized the irony of what he read?
We don't know what we don't know.
if he were here today, he'd probably think "this is worse than I could have imagined."
He fortunately escaped the worst. Knowing is not the same as experiencing.
He did think MJ would be legal soon, but look at where we are
"And I have a pretty good imagination"
He is likely rolling in his grave.
Truly prophetic.
In all honesty, I imagine he’d probably be a vocal part of the throng pushing for socialization of governments, standardization of publicly available information and willing to accept slow attrition of individual liberties in exchange for a more widespread acknowledgement of intrinsic human and natural truths.
As much as I admire Sagan, this has always been my disagreement with his approach.
“a kind of celebration of ignorance”.
wow did he ever nail that!!!!!
@@activatefiasco5843Jesus called! He hates you.
@@mrmark8603*
@@activatefiasco5843 Are you limited in vocabulary? You just repeat the same nonsense to everyone here.
Just like a trumpian "nuremberg" rally.
I was born in the UK in 1984 and only really discovered Carl Sagan around 10 years ago. He is an inspiration, as a man, as an advocate of public scientific engagement and much more. He is one of my greatest heroes and I just wish he could have stayed with us a bit longer, the world needs voices like his more than ever
He is asking exactly the same questions I'm asking if I'm seeing a sci-fi movie.
Let's pretend (even if it's extremely unlikely) we would find a planet where an almost hairless, apelike species is the intelligent lifeform. Since everything that's big enough to be a planet has the form of a ball and therefore have different zones, wouldn't it be it like on earth, where the people from different regions have different colors and looks?
The rest Carl Sagan says is correct as well.
I just can't believe that almost nothing changed in the (40 or so) years after the interview.
I never realised he wrote the movie contact with Jodie Foster
goon
we sure need him now. My god, the most p opular people nowadays, are athletes and movie stars. Why CAN'T they be professors or teachers??
I want Carl Sagan, HG Wells, George Orwell and Nikola Tesla back. That would be an amazing dinner.
Cannibal...
Throw Da Vinci into the mix....
With George Carlin as the moderator.
Perhaps Hanibal Lecter could have Donald Trump over for dinner....With some fava beans and a nice chianti
Asimov predicted it in 1941 (Nightfall); the mob dismisses great minds and critical thinking.
Try Robert Heinlein, "Revolt in 2100"...almost LITERALLY what we're fighting against.
Great mind. Great man as well.
or read what George Washington had to say about political parties in his farewell address. it'll sound VERY familiar.
Kurt Vonnegut
Very appropriate references guys _ i ll submit Steel Pulse Wild goose chase. 😃
I read that book around that time, when I was a teen in Bogotá Colombia; he inspired me to become a scientist. Today I’m finishing my PhD in neuroscience.
Thats great I'm happy for you.
You go Os! Carl inspired me too as a teen watching Cosmos. I got my PhD and worked as a neuroscientist until early retirement 13 years ago. Right now is a remarkable time to be in the field. Since the Human Genome Project was completed, molecular research (what I did) in neuroscience has accelerated incredibly fast, but I hope you remember to keep an eye on the human side of your work, and never lose your sense of wonder. That's what Carl taught me. Good luck to you :-)
Congratulations!!
Right on!
@@beenaplumber8379 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I never once stopped having an appreciation for Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan made me realize that I was connected to the earth and the stars and to every single thing on this planet.
Carl Sagan literally inspired me to be really interested in stargazing/ Science/ Tech & the perception that we are not as important as we think we are but are also more important than we think we are at the same time.🤯
We're doomed and we all just sit back and watch it. I hope we all have the courage to do the right thing when the time comes. God bless us all at the end of the day We're only human.
Unfortunately those who need to hear his message wouldn't understand that he was talking about them.
🎯 👍🏼
Your right but enough about trump supporters
My daughters say that all the time about some of our relatives, especially the ones their age.
It's a shame you focus on the last few lines and don't see the bigger picture.,
I hate how this always happens….
"Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true"
Sounds like America
Yep...sounds like the every liberal everywhere
@@lillypatrick8481 then explain global warming.
@@lillypatrick8481 i was going to comment on all the talking points and misinformation you spouted but i think the video that Honest Brian has shared has done it for me.
Truth always made me feel better.✌️
@@billybarnes1763 What about climate change? The world needs to address it, and it is.
LOL he was describing msnbc and their viewers
Most excellent video! Carl nailed it exactly 25 years ago.
"The dumbing down of America ... the lowest common denominator ... the power of technology in the hands of the few ... the masses retreat to superstition ... the celebration of ignorance." Well Sagan was right and here we are!!
Yes here we are. All he said was so true
If our state is predictable, then organize and incentivize the logical course corrections.
Socialist education is a wonderful thing.
But but at least I am white ... you. Diuu.
@@roughhabit9085 Socialism keeps the dumbest of them alive.
I remember even as an 8 year old I wondered why Chewie didn't get a medal.
Lol, me too.
I kinda thought in my young mind; had he received a medal, it would get tangled up in his hair. 😊
I thought back then, and later got it confirmed, that Fisher was just too short to hang it on him in a dignified manner. :P
I'm pretty sure he got it in the novelization.
Presumably wookiees have a religious prohibition against medals and they're just being culturally sensitive
Me too!!
Wow, I remember as a kid 1978, 8yrs old why do white people hate Black people so much and I was still upset Elvis died. smh
20+ years ago, this book fundamentally changed my worldview. As I write this, it's on the the shelf behind me, a bit worn and yellowed. I'll never forget the clarity it gave me. I only wish that more would come to the light of that candle.
It's amazing how he could call out issues without insulting or placing blame on anyone or any group in particular. I strive to be as good a communicator as he was
Gave me chills to read his last words. He also said: "We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it."
Big pharma, who else? And who runs big pharma....? Connect the dots.
@@grotekleum Thanks for this I’m gonna check it out 🙏🏻
so he’s basically advocating for a technocracy
This is what happen when hunter laptop was ignoring.
The Trump administration, the Saudi Royal family, and the Republic of China are the biggest examples of failed leadership in this regard. They all have gaslighted their respected populaces to the point that could lead to the world's complete extinction.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan
Yes. It's much easier to fool someone than to make them see they were fooled.
Malvolm X said it as well: we've been bamboozled and hoodwinked. My purple have been screaming it for years only to be silenced and met with backlash. Now, we have no other choice but to stand up and look at what our "founding fathers" and their descendants gave us.
@@SusanKay- Trump could "stand in the middle of 5th ave and shoot someone and he wouldn't lose voters." For as much as a pathological liar as he is, that statement was true.
Wow! This is an astounding statement in these times, and so relevant to our current situation. Great quote!
Like it is said, if you keep repeating a lie enough times, eventually people will believe it. The evidence is staring us straight in the face. Will enough of us believe it now to make a change?
So back in the 90s I was in college getting my psychology degree and one teacher gave the most amazing lessons where he spoke of the world and what it will look like in 30 years. OMG I started seeing it about 10 years ago and today.... BOOM 💥🎯... Here we are. Exactly where he said we'd be. I took a lot of classes, had a lot of teachers but he's the only one who gave lessons you couldn't stop listening to.
I discovered Carl Sagan in 2008. I watched and rewatched his cosmos series several times. then I watched them once more in 2020 when the show turned 40. He's always been a voice of reason for me
and its all BS
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
And that is about all We have left..............Paul
yeah, well that is everyone on Earth then.
Sounds like he was talking about ANTIFA and BLM.
@@justgivemethetruth nah, mostly just Trump and his supporters.
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I'd like to think that, but it's just not true.
I am a peon with a BA who loudly shouted the same sentiments over 20 years ago. It didn't take an astrophysicist to see where America was headed.
Well, it may not require an astrophysicist, but obviously many of us don’t or didn’t have the requisite skills to see that, at least not many of us… that said, Im in the south, poor education, I didn’t even graduate and I could see the writing on the wall 20 years ago too… I think others were concerned about it even 50+ years ago. They were shouted down, shamed and called names for their concerns for humanity and the system that we rely on, I’m not sure things are one bit better now, just further advanced.
True.
@@swayback7375
It's never too late to graduate if you wanted to. There's lots of help out there.
Good luck.
Wow. He really did describe the whole thing. Goosebumps
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"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." - Carl Sagan
The failure of the public school system is cultural and intentional
@@twilightgardenspresentatio6384
Whatever troll! The topic is Carl Sagan !
Try to keep up !
@@AndiDuck sounds like you got left behind brother.
@@billybarnes1763
You sound like one of those weirdos who thinks the only gender on social media is male.
@@AndiDuck wtf are you talking about? Do you even know?
How far left behind are you? Getting a lil desperate....
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-Isaac Asimov (1980)
Isaac was a dirty old man that aussalted young women.
@@grantlong6586 Cool story bro.
@@grantlong6586 Be Best.
@@Billkwando :)
@@grantlong6586 have we come to this? Not everything has to be negative. Be better than that Sis.
Truely a message the world desperately needs to hear and actualize.
That quote from The Demon-Haunted World is chillingly prophetic.
“Celebration of ignorance” that one alone explains current events
Who was it wrote, "when ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"?
Sagan was talking about these Trump fools, who follow a Nazi leader that likes the "Dumb & Dumber Philosophy!" Who needs Freedom when you have Trumpism, just make up your own truths and lie about everything else!
Yes indeed . I call it willful ignorance .
@@leemendham4788 Thomas Gray, 1742
People burning masks.
Some people are pure light in the darkness .. we miss you Carl Sagan. RIP
... and Christopher Hitchens.
@@alphabravo8703 Indeed! Love Christopher Hitchens. As a person living outside the United states and being young i just learned about these two people a couple of years ago.
@@kristofferhellstrom Carl's explaining dumbing down. That would explain Brian Williams
Remember Piggy in Lord of the Flies? Same thing. The only one making sense was killed.
“Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true.” Wow
....they say Truth Conquers All...Mr.C.Sagan was a definition of that...pure, true and humble too
Truth be told, most people in my generation could see this coming, as unfettered capitalism is bound to lead to fascism.
And it really took root with the first "stab" at trickle down. Rapidly eroding the middle class. And... here we go again.
Yep, I emigrated from the US almost 40 years ago. Reagan's "Morning in America" was a rejection of the lessons of Vietnam War, the Great Society, and Civil Rights. It's when conservatives started ridiculing compasion as "political correctness" and championed "greed is good" and trickle down.
Capitalism in the current form is highly destructive.
Malignant Capitalism.
@@spacelemur7955 Where to?
I miss that brilliant man. I miss the calm inflection of his voice and the concise and articulate way he explained the Universe. RIP Carl Sagan.
The world is poorer without his intelligence and wisdom.
@@Dan_Ben_Michael Also, richer for having him here to lift us up.
I thought you were talking about Johnny Carson; then I got to the end of your eulogy and stood corrected!😅
Death is a ponzi scheme proven by quantum physics a long time ago.
There are any others, if you choose to listen.
Truly the definition of ahead of his time
This guy was so ahead of his time, intelligent, and the sort of mind you'd want running this country. Not like a large portion of those who are, and have in the past, run this country.
A “celebration of ignorance” is exactly what we’re dealing with here and now, he hit the nail on the head!
Especially in the White house
Hilarious….BLM and Woke “racism” are dying Just watch.
Absolutely.. Being woke, to me that means intelligence, knowledge and thinking for themselves, is a bad thing and praising a horrible person and giving applause to idiots on stage is now a thing... Read many of his books and I still didn't see this coming.. How ignorant I was in my thinking that, no, not here, not in the US.. Smdh
Everyone start reading books.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" - MLK
"A celebration of ignorance" hit it on the head with that one
Pretty much describes the last four years!
@@dryroasted5599 lol, no. Biden is destroying America. But that barbecue tho.
Twitter and TikTok
@Blue Jazz MSNBC Lawyers DON'T CLAIM THEIR ANCHORS ARE ENTERTAINERS FOX DOES. GOING SO FAR AS TO ADMITTING ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE NEWS ARE IDIOTS
@Blue Jazz you're reaching, I think he meant the media as whole and how it would influence people who don't question where the information comes from. The dumbed the better
We need you now more than ever Carl.
Mind blowing 😒🤯America really is in decline. I was thinking just about these things while watching George Carlin… can’t remember how I ended up seeing Carl Sagan and, unfortunately for me, today is the first time I hear of him … priceless work 🙏
We should listen to more intellectuals and scholars. Hello? Studying never stops.
You mean the intellectual elite 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱❗
That's right. Yes, there are the uneducated. But it's not a lack of education or degrees per se. A lot of people have an aversion to learning in this country. Hence, the contempt for experts. Studying never stops and it begins with critical reading. Many can't do that, and they don't have a factory to keep busy.
I'm still learning
That makes you a radical leftist in 2021 though. Bigly.
I think that people who are of the perspective that it is NOT necessary to continue studying throughout their entire lives should be incarcerated for the safety and security of everyone else.
Social Media is one of the biggest double edge swords in human history
so is profitable news
TV was much worse it did not let you generate your own content at all a slave to a box .
Everyone has a voice on social media and now the world is confronted with an uneasy truth..... We don't need this many opinions. We want to believe adding more cooks enhances the gumbo that is our social discourse.
@@danielesposito9705 and so is profitable prison systems.
It’s just tittytainment to feed junk food into our brain so when don’t think
I'll clutch crystals before I listen to MSNBC thanks.
I loved his show Cosmos, it really inspired me when I was growing up. It was so awesome!
When being a scientist, doctor or intellectual is a negative trait to so many people it’s become a very scary and sad world.
It's a return to the European dark ages
I'm pretty sure you can thank religions for that!
@@mlblja ... The GloBULL warming religion. Zuckerberg has appointed himself the GOD of LEFTYISM. All anti-dogma dissenters are HERETICS.
@@GordoGambler I think you just proved melvins point
@@GordoGambler Thank you. I'd rather have truth than an imaginary voice from the sky guiding my morals. People like you abandon even the most primary rules of your chosen religion in the names of people that never existed.
Carl Sagan was a rare American sage. He foresaw the frightful descent into barbaric celebration of ignorance we witness today.
No greater statement was made with fewer words.
👍🏼
*CELEBRATION OF IGNORANCE:* Wearing a sticker BRAGGING that you took an experimental vaccine with zero long-term safety data made by known criminals who lie about trial data for something that has a 99.95% survival rate for people under 50. "Pfizer has been a habitual offender, persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results." - PubMed
@@markbernhardt6281 : Thanks so much. Carl Sagan, in both science and humanities, was a seer and a breath of fresh air. The world desperately needs more enlightened beings like him.
robotron17 I see you got down the rabbit hole good 🙄
I clicked for Carl Sagan, got Brian Williams. Shouldn't have ignored the MSNBC logo ...
"The Demon Haunted World" should be required reading. It's a depressingly accurate prediction of the shitshow we're in.
My religious denomination is unapologetically "Sagan".
I passionately watched "Cosmos" as a teenager and I recall my dad once commenting , "You are even starting to sound like him." Sagan inspired my choice of college courses. He was a HUGE influence on my life.
Same here! I went into theoretical physics because of Sagan.
Well done...there are few people who deserve the status of being the epitome of greatness.
He had a beautiful mind.
“Chewbacca deserves a medal” - Carl Sagan
I've never seen star wars but is that really true? At the end the human crew gets a medal but he doesn't?
I can't give you a like (because nice), but I can say I 100% agree
@@DaveWraptastic Yes, it's true.
Chewbacca was oath bound to Han Solo, but i agree that he deserves a medal.
Ever occur to anyone that Chewbacca may have declined to be awarded? We assume wookie culture would let him accept it.
“To me, not teaching science would be perverse.. when you’re in love you want to tell the world.” - Dr. Sagan
In 1974 a PSA by Leonard Nimoy
said we would soon die of a ice age
2022 I'm still here
Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" is a must-read for every thinking human being.
Preach. Irony noted.
Ummm Thank You…I’m buying the book…🤔🧐
The section 'Baloney Detection Kit' is essential reading. It's worth buying the book alone for.
not
Put it on my wishlist
"Big bellies, fat thighs, and dumb kids." -George Carlin
I listen to his videos now more than I did when he was alive. He didn't care for Organized Relugions Either. Or Consumerism. What would he have to say about the nit wits flying aroynd the planet while the earth is burning up? Maybe something like "I hope they. are enjoying the veiw."
😃?
@@isha9300 i think that quote is about life
the man gets overweight as he ages
he married a woman with nice legs
and now has to raise their annoying kids
The kids that have a disability work harder than the "dumb and normal"kids.
@@emiliaabeyta159 is ORE an organization?
This is, oh man, there are so many words for this...sobering is one word that comes to mind. Thank you for this.
Carl died when I was a young boy, but boy oh boy did he change my life forever.
Every word in that quote is an undeniable truth of our present state of being. Sometimes I dread being around for the next 20 years, because how badly things are right now.
There's a chance we'll be here to see things get better.
@@randygibbons7817 Given the lobbying by the fossil fuel industry on the policy of the US that chance is deliberately being shrunk by corruption, greed and self interest.
To copy the words of the great George Carlin..
"it's never gonna get any better. Don't look forward to it. Be happy with what you got."
If you listen to the crowd react to Segan's comments you'll notice laughter,
back then they call such comments humor.
Keep the faith, we all need to, and try to be the best we can ❤️
Just another example of what happens when "smart" people do not get the amount of press as singers and actors
...the amount of time as dumb people
I have often thought of that but somehow it is difficult to gather a crowd in a stadium around a group of scientists doing lab work for the next discovery. Perhaps more scientists should get more publicity for their accomplishments. However, I fear that there may be a hurdle to understanding what they did compared to someone putting a ball in a net.
People who tell the truth don't get fanfare. George Carlin always did. He was a legend. When he passed it was like "oh yeah comedian George Carlin died". All just to redirect people away from the truth about how we royally messed things up? It's right there in front of us. Most of us just want quality of life to improve. We are wasting time following social media.
celebration of ignorance? SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THEM DARN RALLIES TO ME, WHAT Y'ALL THINK
@Captain Obvious 'We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor.' Professor Julius Sumner Miller. 1940
He represented the best of humanity and still does.
Remember when we thought 2021 was a mess??😂😂😂
"The United States has gone from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization." - Albert Einstein
That was Oscar Wild as far as I know. My apologies if I am wrong Could be of French origin to. But Its a great quote,
@@karllansche9843 You might be right! It sounds more like O.Wild than Einstein (he finished his life in America and this quote wouldn't have helped).
@@karllansche9843 Wilde.
@@wordsculpt Wilde of course. thanks !
Perfect words to sum up a nation in a single sentence.
Sagan would be horrified to know those "10 second sound bites" have been reduced to mouse clicks.
Literally just headlines. People get their news from headlines.
You’re both behind .. memes and tweets with a character limit. You’re left to interpret them however you can because there will never be any context ..
My expert says so
He speaks for us
Or extended to a whole show by Tucker Carlson...
He wouldn't have been horrified, he would have anticipated it as the natural next step in the regressive evolution of human consumption.
Chewbacca not getting a medal bugged me, too!
Sagan was "The Star of the Stars", as one journalist termed him at the time of his passing. Sagan was a great popularizer who really connected with the average guy in the street. I loved Sagan's "Cosmos" series & never missed one of his Carson appearances, or, later, his Charlie Rose interviews(though I was no fan of Rose in general as an interviewer). The astrophysicist made astronomy truly cool, though I was interested long before Sagan came on the scene. The man took a number of hits from his professional colleagues in those years, deriding his academic work & denigrating his rising fame as a mere popularizer, not a serious scientist. Jealousy & envy certainly played a part in their criticisms, which I believe were unmerited. Sagan appealed to a still-literate & intelligent, curious citizenry in the mid-70's, something largely missing from today's dumbed-down society, WAY dumbed-down. The generation of the post moon-landings, of which I was a member, had become aware as to how alone we are in the universe & were both mesmerized & enchanted by "what's out there". Sagan made our queasiness & fascination over this understandable, thought-provoking, & wonderfully philosophical. After Watergate, the population had become thoroughly cynical toward the U.S. government, its institutions, & the meaningless promises of politicians. Astronomy became one of the last untainted verities we could focus on, a way to "escape" our earthbound problems, disappointments, & increasing dissatisfaction with all levels of government in general, a chance to "get outside of ourselves", at least for a little while. Sagan provided this escape & alot of us, myself included, were more than receptive to it. The awe & wonder he made us feel has, I'm afraid, vanished entirely in our own decadent, downward-spiralling age, one bereft of inspirational imagination. I still miss Mr. Sagan, every time I gaze at the night-sky, dreaming of what's "out-there", just as he did.
I went to my first Star Trek convention dressed as Chewbacca.
It was a Wookiee mistake.
I got a bad feeling about this
Must have been a bit of a Hairy situation.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love it! 😆lolololololololololol 😆
i assume things really got out of Han-d
That excerpt gave me chills. That guy was a visionary. Too bad no one listened hard enough to stop it.
If I only had the money, support and like minded individuals who thought like myself. Carl Sagan
Shaped my life in so many ways...I still think of him fondly in these days gone by. Seems less than a parsec ago
He absolutely got a medal.
Brian Williams adds an extra later of trustworthiness to this segment. Well done!
Isaac Asimov is another notable voice that predicted the future.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Issac Asimov 1980 (41 years ago)
Isaac, who's up in Heaven now, could easily have also have forseen that modern info-tainment substitutes enriching programming for Ancient Aliens, critical commentary for pundits that argue they aren't to be believed in court, and politicians that embrace the easy appeals to chauvinism and nationalism. So it goes
@@JoMactheJ Not up in heaven, he was an atheist so knew heaven does not exist.
Yea, dumin down an its getten more worser.
If Carl Sagan were alive today, the Trump cult would call for his imprisonment.
If Carl Sagan were alive today, none of the Trump followers would have any idea who he is.
Actually, if he were alive today, he’d be trying to claw his way out of the casket.
They chanted "lock up Fauci" at the mass infection events.
@@jakeplourde 😁 zombie Sagan might not be a great idea. . .
@@philscott7949 He funded the Wuhan lab and then lied to congress about it. He's knowingly lied about all kinds of things throughout the pandemic from masks, to the possibility of a lab leak, to his involvement with social media censorship. I'm pretty sure several of those instances count as perjury, criminal negligence or malfeasance. Seems like a good candidate for legal action wouldn't you agree?
The real irony here is that this is being played on MSNBC.
Orwell predicted the mess we'd be in in the book 1984. That was written in the 40s.
Boy that last sentence about the media was right on. They are a huge factor in the "dumbing down......".
This one and all. We have great mistakes to correct. And there’s no point in even explaining them anymore. I’ve given up. People truly are ignorant.
@@danielcurcio6642 This channel is what brought Sagan's prescient words to peoples' attention. The media Mr. Sagan was alluding to was obviously rightwing propaganda garbage like OAN, Newsmax, and FoxNews. Evidently you're one of the ignorant and misinformed that desperately needs to get out of his safe little echo chamber bubble.
@@Brendan-Black hahaha. Take it from someone who is from former socialists country, under the government which consist of former socialist we couldn't lustrate, people like you will bring democracy down. We all use to look up to USA, now we lough at you, you are becoming more communist then we ever was and that is sad. Deevolution at work!
You forgot Trump!
Ever hear of the US FCC's Fairness Doctrine?
He knew how stupid we were and would be and currently are
No doubt.
@@normalguycap And who put them in charge?
George Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Exactly- we have Biden / democrats destroying every state they control and we’re so stupid, they we elect these idiots to the highest power of office. Hope you’re practicing your Mandarin. China 🇨🇳 is coming
The smartest of us pull the rest of us forward, the dumbest drag us down.
Sagan understood, as few do, both that physical laws obey, and that people are flawed.
80% of the comments on this thread perfectly prove his point.
"All the way back in 1995" sounds strange when most people haven't even adapted to the 21st century yet.
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I'm 50 years old, and my first thought was "1995 wasn't 25 years ago!" Haha, how time flies.
Carl Sagan's predictions weren't as astonishing as they might sound. He was merely extrapolating from trends that had already started from then. By 1995, Reagan had already been the president, America's industrial core had started degrading, jobs were already being offshored, people were already discussing China's entry to the WTO, Newt Gingrich was already speaker of the house, we already had cable TV.
And a new technology called the internet was working its way around the world.
Adapted? Lol Ppl are ppl and that will never change. Nothing changes asides from the technology and the emporers. We use to have a nice free society until the leaders of our country sold us out to corporations and the Constitution became *for the ppl instead of Of the ppl. You see how 1 lil word changes everything? Also you act like 95 was long ago but it was merely a blink of the eye. You'll understand when (or if) you get off the surface and mature a bit more. He actually touched up on that a bit when he was speaking about the dumbing down of America but you thought he was speaking about adaption like it was a good thing ppl are turning into mindless robots lol
This was 80s
Sagan was a genius
Probably, but not very scholarly really. He came up with little original theories and basically wrote watered-down science books for the hoi polloi that any middling high school science teacher could. As soon as I got into real scholarship, I realized that Sagan was good for Junior High students (when I read all of his books after he had died), but hardly a true intellectual. He did publish in actual academic journals, but often with co-researchers (who did more of the work usually) and nothing very original.
Muttley think he summed it up when speaking in that Carson interview on Star Wars where diversity is lacking and the few are privileged.
An a stable Genius ! unlike the Moron who occupied the Oval Office and claimed he was a stable Genius and NOT even close .
Love Muttley 😘🐶 that dog in Star Wars should have gotten a medal! 😆
@@dHolbach77 Dude, he wrote almost 700 publications in scientific journals and was one of the foremost experts on Venus well before he became famous. The US government literally chose him as an undergraduate student to calculate the dust cloud formation from a nuclear bomb detonation on the moon for a top secret report that wasn't declassified until decades later. Pretending like he is some pop science celebrity is downright insulting.
Neil Degrasse Tyson or Michio Kaku are pop sci figures that have like less than 10 publications and the majority are just their "watered down" high school physics as you would put it. Carl has literally hundreds of publications in scientific journals and was often spot on with his speculation, such as with Quasars and his accurate prediction of the atmosphere of Venus. They aren't even remotely comparable, Carl was an actual scientist well before his career in the public eye.
By the way, spamming your same comment on every single post here is just pathetic.
That is terrifyingly accurate
Sounds more like he knew the script.
An absolute legend. I'd argue his greatest contribution to science was his ability to make it accessible to everyone. He could take incredibly complex ideas and simplify them enough for the average person to understand without coming off as condescending.
Agreed. Well said!💕
The way to distinguish between an informed and intelligent person, and someone who Really knows their stuff, is that the first resort to jargon, and the second understand the information so well that they can think of a dozen everyday examples!
The pale blue dot. Carl gifts us so much truth, eloquently delivered.
Christian from WWE?
Sagan Gang
I read that 25 years ago. The book is still on my nightstand. It was a damning report on what was wrong with us and I have yet to read it to the end. Why? It shook me and I needed a break. I will finish it once I recover.
Irony, that a media company guilty of what he accused reports it as if they are not so.
I remember watching Sagan’s Cosmos when I was a kid and also Carson, what great intelligence and integrity there was on TV before the internet made everyone stupid
Carson and Sagan were good friends, as they both shared a passion for astronomy.
The internet counters stupid. We have News Corp et al to thank for the dumbing down part.
Internet good.. science bad
The internet, like most things- is what we make of it. Unfortunately, the loudest & most confident among us are not so bright.
Um... wasn't TV once famously called the "boob tube"?
nobody could say the word 'billions' like good ol' Dr. Carl
I remember being in my teens in my living room listening on a small transistor radio to Carl talk and just being mesmerized by the way he made space sound so intriguing.
Billions in billions
The antithesis of Trump's billions.
Wait! The Trumpist idiots would say he couldn't call himself Dr Sagan because he's not a medic.
I think McDonald's was about to launch an advertising campaign using Carl Sagan to proclaim that there were billions and billions served
I knew his first wife, an evolutionary biologist (among other credentials) and heard her influence in his perspective. How interesting
we need intellectuals like that as world leaders not pathetic politicians
_“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”_ -Carl Sagan
*We* _are the_ *Universe* _manifest conscious. The Cosmos getting to know itself._
Mejiora he said that long before he passed away . I am so glad he became a believer on his death bed .
Nice try tho .
@@brianmax1301 became a believer? As in God? Talk about the biggest bamboozle in human history, and as he said, it's too painful for any believer to acknowledge it's all just a story like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, just not as good.
@@brianmax1301 "There was no deathbed conversion," Druyan says. "No appeals to God, no hope for an afterlife, no pretending that he and I, who had been inseparably for twenty years, were not saying goodbye forever."
"Didn't he want to believe?" she was asked.
"Carl never wanted to believe," she replies fiercely. "He wanted to KNOW."
Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's wife, from Newsweek
@@chuckmaceanruig Quoting Newsweek is like quoting CNN .
LOL
@@brianmax1301 Denying reality is a sign of psychosis.
Then: I'll believe it when I see it
Now: I'll see it when I believe it
Ill see it if I agree with it
Great comments, both.
Even this was a soundbite. Read the book. Well worth your time. Progress isn't inevitable. It depends on how informed you are, and the choices you and everyone else make.
Guess I watched this already. Can only give a thumbs up once.
"...when the people have lost the ability to set their own agenda..." is what stood out the most to me. I think this explains why people so often vote against their own self-interest, and seem to do a complete 180 on their values overnight. They don't have their own ideals that they stick to; they just go with what the talking heads on tv say.
Instead of picking Star Wars apart look to the positive. It was innovative. What I thought when I saw E.T. was how easily this space creature was accepted and loved while fellow human beings of another race were not. Just a bunch of phoney baloney.
@@SusanKay- such an ignorant comment. You are precisely the kind of simple minded person the OP is talking about... you form all your opinions from talking heads, in your case it seems it’s probably late night “comedians” and SNL.
You know, as a 41 year old, I feel like life has bullied me so much, that I keep my head down, read my sci-fi books, and buy something cool off of Amazon every now and then. I genuinely feel like nothing short of major economic, revolutionary, or global war will change things much. So instead, I stay informed, I vote, but I know we’re collectively eyeing our foot with a shotgun. As an idealist who loved history and civics when I was young, I truly bought into everything our founding fathers established (almost everything, I’m black). But when you get older, work, have a mortgage, you become disillusioned with seeing how everyone in power games the system. To the point, that well meaning people are conditioned to play the game when they first get power. Democratic or Republican, we should be a stronger republic with more quality, fact driven non-biased news, strong STEM and civics for students in order to raise quality citizens who work together. Anyways, I’m rambling, so I’ll put my head back down.
We need more of your input please keep going
Keep your head up brother! You spoke your peace quietly and clearly.
I appreciated reading your thoughts man!
Totally agree - and it's exactly why Sagan's predictions hit so hard
(minor critique, hit ‘return’ when you feel like rambling 😏)
You're obviously a cut above the rest. Watch the movie Idiocracy. It's a funny movie which presents a future society 500 years from now where the average IQ is about 30.
That's crazy. He predicted the future of major news outlets... including nbc
“Wookiees!? You mean WOKIES!!”
-Ron Desantis, probably