USA
Military Guide
“the greatness of America lies not
in being more enlightened than any other nation,
but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”
de Tocqueville
"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),
lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on
pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
Carl Sagan THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD 1995
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