“how does a Yale graduate not know the difference”
Knowing and knowledge is not the crisis. The crisis of understanding in the United States of America 2025 is that thinking systems are important. Reactionary thinking, mockery thinking, one-upmanship thinking is not the same as the science way of thinking. Twitter-thinking, meme thinking, isn’t the same as science thinking.
“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. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less)” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
Nobody here is saying “devoid of emotion”. I love you. I think the crisis is people flocking to hate and machine dehumanization, leaving compassion and love in the dust.
I’m going to have to lock this posting, nobody here is replying in understanding of the March 2013 Russian Information warfare crisis and it’s all been reactionary mocking. I can’t keep spoon feeding you about every one of your hate-filled reactions.
The only “emotion” you prize is hate and dehumanization, just like Donald Trump is very emotional. hate-filled emotions. Russia mind-fucked you and you are programmed not to discuss Cambridge Analtyica and Russia.
Compassion and love are emotions, You think the answer to hate is more hate. Reactionary.
More mockery and insults. I see why you flock to JD Vance topics, because he too uses insults and mocking. You think compassion and literacy promotion, promoting Carl Sagan, is “childish”. In fact, you are here to message that Carl Sagan is childish. This posting was responded to by viewing it through the lens of Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, which is not childish view. But you can only seem to react, react in mocking and insults, like Donald Trump on Truth Social.
I think you don’t understand media ecology of Neil Postman and Marshall McLuhan, how Lemmy shapes your reactionary behaviors. Nor do you understand information warfare and Cambridge Analytica influence on the population and mindsets in the nation. These take patience and effort to comprehend and understand, not reactionary insult messages.
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“Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what’s right. But I’m here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it’s wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it’s wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It’s wrong in every age and it’s wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute.” - February 28, 1954