Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago

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  • @Dan-ud8hz
    @Dan-ud8hz 3 роки тому +759

    “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

    • @rockabye274
      @rockabye274 3 роки тому +26

      That's an on point quote from Asimov (who was a very imaginative and influential author).

    • @berthabridges3483
      @berthabridges3483 3 роки тому +10

      Beautiful. It's true.

    • @noskillzdad5504
      @noskillzdad5504 3 роки тому +18

      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.

    • @cjshannon296
      @cjshannon296 3 роки тому +4

      This is it right here

    • @chloekey8043
      @chloekey8043 3 роки тому +8

      The founding fathers grappled with that. That’s why the Senate was not elected by popular vote in the beginning

  • @lchjr
    @lchjr 3 роки тому +283

    Asimov predicted it in 1941 (Nightfall); the mob dismisses great minds and critical thinking.

    • @jbarnhart2653
      @jbarnhart2653 3 роки тому +18

      Try Robert Heinlein, "Revolt in 2100"...almost LITERALLY what we're fighting against.

    • @ricardo950535
      @ricardo950535 3 роки тому +7

      Great mind. Great man as well.

    • @Lunar_Sovereign
      @Lunar_Sovereign 3 роки тому +8

      or read what George Washington had to say about political parties in his farewell address. it'll sound VERY familiar.

    • @brocksamson3282
      @brocksamson3282 3 роки тому +7

      Kurt Vonnegut

    • @warrendoris9669
      @warrendoris9669 3 роки тому +1

      Very appropriate references guys _ i ll submit Steel Pulse Wild goose chase. 😃

  • @johnjohnson1709
    @johnjohnson1709 3 роки тому +3981

    Unfortunately those who need to hear his message wouldn't understand that he was talking about them.

    • @mariannesouza8326
      @mariannesouza8326 3 роки тому +49

      🎯 👍🏼

    • @charlesciminera5881
      @charlesciminera5881 3 роки тому +159

      Your right but enough about trump supporters

    • @car2029
      @car2029 3 роки тому +15

      My daughters say that all the time about some of our relatives, especially the ones their age.

    • @DirtyDoctorDan
      @DirtyDoctorDan 3 роки тому +19

      It's a shame you focus on the last few lines and don't see the bigger picture.,

    • @dotapark
      @dotapark 3 роки тому +4

      I hate how this always happens….

  • @GordiansKnotHere
    @GordiansKnotHere 2 роки тому +395

    "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.

    • @iceswallow7717
      @iceswallow7717 Рік тому +14

      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

    • @sandal_thong8631
      @sandal_thong8631 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @MeandMyStaffy
      @MeandMyStaffy Рік тому

      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.

    • @robertbrow4817
      @robertbrow4817 Рік тому +3

      I wonder if Brian Williams recognized the irony of what he read?

    • @Watchyn_Yarwood
      @Watchyn_Yarwood 10 місяців тому +1

      We don't know what we don't know.

  • @zoltore23
    @zoltore23 3 роки тому +4575

    "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
    Isaac Asimov.

    • @Z1BABOUINOS
      @Z1BABOUINOS 3 роки тому +92

      "I have hairy legs"
      A senile crook.

    • @Bruv234
      @Bruv234 3 роки тому +100

      “I never had sexual relations with that woman”
      A sexual predator from Arkansas.

    • @sampleis
      @sampleis 3 роки тому +179

      @@Bruv234 What does this have to do with this subject matter? Think about that, if you can.

    • @Z1BABOUINOS
      @Z1BABOUINOS 3 роки тому +34

      @@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..... 🤫

    • @OpeningSalvo
      @OpeningSalvo 3 роки тому +73

      @@Z1BABOUINOS Let's see this "evidence"...or STFU

  • @miken.2847
    @miken.2847 3 роки тому +436

    I remember even as an 8 year old I wondered why Chewie didn't get a medal.

    • @elram2649
      @elram2649 3 роки тому +15

      Lol, me too.
      I kinda thought in my young mind; had he received a medal, it would get tangled up in his hair. 😊

    • @Rincenso
      @Rincenso 3 роки тому +11

      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.

    • @richardbraakman7469
      @richardbraakman7469 3 роки тому +4

      Presumably wookiees have a religious prohibition against medals and they're just being culturally sensitive

    • @lquidgrl
      @lquidgrl 3 роки тому +1

      Me too!!

    • @BigLove101
      @BigLove101 3 роки тому +4

      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

  • @samuelcookphippen
    @samuelcookphippen 3 роки тому +199

    “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

    • @Tuxedo2680
      @Tuxedo2680 3 роки тому +15

      Yes. It's much easier to fool someone than to make them see they were fooled.

    • @msc2u1
      @msc2u1 3 роки тому +7

      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.

    • @castelodomar846
      @castelodomar846 3 роки тому +13

      @@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.

    • @clintjensen7814
      @clintjensen7814 3 роки тому +12

      Wow! This is an astounding statement in these times, and so relevant to our current situation. Great quote!

    • @lucycan6363
      @lucycan6363 3 роки тому +16

      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?

  • @os2171
    @os2171 3 роки тому +5696

    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.

    • @RAZJR54
      @RAZJR54 3 роки тому +84

      Thats great I'm happy for you.

    • @beenaplumber8379
      @beenaplumber8379 3 роки тому +147

      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 :-)

    • @t.taylor6135
      @t.taylor6135 3 роки тому +37

      Congratulations!!

    • @pasqualinamichelaconsiglio9391
      @pasqualinamichelaconsiglio9391 3 роки тому +28

      Right on!

    • @eyrelobo6390
      @eyrelobo6390 3 роки тому +9

      @@beenaplumber8379 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • @FlechetteArchery
    @FlechetteArchery 3 роки тому +463

    if he were here today, he'd probably think "this is worse than I could have imagined."

    • @SerenityInfinity
      @SerenityInfinity 3 роки тому +18

      He fortunately escaped the worst. Knowing is not the same as experiencing.

    • @manuelsalvatierra25
      @manuelsalvatierra25 3 роки тому +3

      He did think MJ would be legal soon, but look at where we are

    • @mercator79
      @mercator79 3 роки тому +3

      "And I have a pretty good imagination"

    • @markhonea2461
      @markhonea2461 3 роки тому +4

      He is likely rolling in his grave.

    • @ScottMaughan
      @ScottMaughan 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @eleni1968
    @eleni1968 3 роки тому +724

    "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!!

    • @barbaracarpenter1260
      @barbaracarpenter1260 3 роки тому +14

      Yes here we are. All he said was so true

    • @kusheran
      @kusheran 3 роки тому +9

      If our state is predictable, then organize and incentivize the logical course corrections.

    • @roughhabit9085
      @roughhabit9085 3 роки тому +7

      Socialist education is a wonderful thing.

    • @jacquelineellis7136
      @jacquelineellis7136 3 роки тому +1

      But but at least I am white ... you. Diuu.

    • @bossman6174
      @bossman6174 3 роки тому +2

      @@roughhabit9085 Socialism keeps the dumbest of them alive.

  • @michaelwood3377
    @michaelwood3377 Рік тому +144

    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

    • @Spielername
      @Spielername Рік тому +2

      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.

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper Рік тому +3

      I never realised he wrote the movie contact with Jodie Foster

    • @marchayburn2617
      @marchayburn2617 Рік тому

      goon

    • @lukeyznaga7627
      @lukeyznaga7627 Рік тому +4

      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??

    • @MedellínInsider-n3o
      @MedellínInsider-n3o 3 місяці тому

      So why do you think he has disappeared from the radars of the present? Besides the obvious reason like mediocrity, no real output as a scientist, cheap storytelling with no substance, all-round fake scientist and one night wonder show clown?
      I am 63 now. When he turned up out of the woodworks with his "Cosmos" series, I too was glued to the TV like so many others around me. It took me a few more years, to reach my own academic progress to realise what a fog maker that creep was.
      I'll leave it to you to walk to that light at the end of your own dark tunnel. Make sure you run to it when you see it. Good luck.

  • @RamiSbeiti
    @RamiSbeiti 2 роки тому +2372

    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."

    • @NewYorkNadia
      @NewYorkNadia 2 роки тому +52

      Big pharma, who else? And who runs big pharma....? Connect the dots.

    • @NewYorkNadia
      @NewYorkNadia 2 роки тому +12

      @@grotekleum Thanks for this I’m gonna check it out 🙏🏻

    • @pmarreck
      @pmarreck 2 роки тому +3

      so he’s basically advocating for a technocracy

    • @jannyholo539
      @jannyholo539 2 роки тому +10

      This is what happen when hunter laptop was ignoring.

    • @ChaosUnfold
      @ChaosUnfold 2 роки тому +1

      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.

  • @Billkwando
    @Billkwando 3 роки тому +207

    "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)

    • @grantlong6586
      @grantlong6586 3 роки тому

      Isaac was a dirty old man that aussalted young women.

    • @Billkwando
      @Billkwando 3 роки тому +4

      @@grantlong6586 Cool story bro.

    • @Billkwando
      @Billkwando 3 роки тому +5

      @@grantlong6586 Be Best.

    • @lindalazarus6403
      @lindalazarus6403 3 роки тому +4

      @@Billkwando :)

    • @troubledsole9104
      @troubledsole9104 3 роки тому +5

      @@grantlong6586 have we come to this? Not everything has to be negative. Be better than that Sis.

  • @pythonxz
    @pythonxz 3 роки тому +519

    "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

    • @paulholterhaus7084
      @paulholterhaus7084 3 роки тому +6

      And that is about all We have left..............Paul

    • @justgivemethetruth
      @justgivemethetruth 3 роки тому

      yeah, well that is everyone on Earth then.

    • @alpha1755
      @alpha1755 3 роки тому +16

      Sounds like he was talking about ANTIFA and BLM.

    • @YM-zz5qq
      @YM-zz5qq 3 роки тому +8

      @@justgivemethetruth nah, mostly just Trump and his supporters.

    • @justgivemethetruth
      @justgivemethetruth 3 роки тому +4

      @@YM-zz5qq
      I'd like to think that, but it's just not true.

  • @adamdavis9838
    @adamdavis9838 2 роки тому +42

    I want Carl Sagan, HG Wells, George Orwell and Nikola Tesla back. That would be an amazing dinner.

    • @jonathanrynjah
      @jonathanrynjah 7 місяців тому +3

      Cannibal...

    • @robindjw4539
      @robindjw4539 6 місяців тому +1

      Throw Da Vinci into the mix....

    • @douglaney1177
      @douglaney1177 5 місяців тому

      With George Carlin as the moderator.

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 5 місяців тому

      Perhaps Hanibal Lecter could have Donald Trump over for dinner....With some fava beans and a nice chianti

    • @alexblickhan5175
      @alexblickhan5175 2 місяці тому +1

      Dream blunt rotation

  • @stevenswitzer5154
    @stevenswitzer5154 3 роки тому +173

    Just another example of what happens when "smart" people do not get the amount of press as singers and actors

    • @jaydid-musicianfromthefutu55
      @jaydid-musicianfromthefutu55 3 роки тому

      ...the amount of time as dumb people

    • @ginodc5944
      @ginodc5944 3 роки тому +7

      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.

    • @phuturelee3420
      @phuturelee3420 3 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @kevinkennedy5937
      @kevinkennedy5937 3 роки тому +2

      celebration of ignorance? SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THEM DARN RALLIES TO ME, WHAT Y'ALL THINK

    • @tonyp2865
      @tonyp2865 3 роки тому +2

      @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

  • @KaritKtana
    @KaritKtana 3 роки тому +936

    "Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true"
    Sounds like America

    • @dougcooper5740
      @dougcooper5740 3 роки тому +25

      Yep...sounds like the every liberal everywhere

    • @billybarnes1763
      @billybarnes1763 3 роки тому +1

      @@lillypatrick8481 then explain global warming.

    • @billybarnes1763
      @billybarnes1763 3 роки тому +2

      @@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.

    • @mlblja
      @mlblja 3 роки тому +11

      Truth always made me feel better.✌️

    • @Deadassbruhfrfr
      @Deadassbruhfrfr 3 роки тому +21

      @@billybarnes1763 What about climate change? The world needs to address it, and it is.

  • @pjdebenedetti3214
    @pjdebenedetti3214 3 роки тому +252

    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.

    • @Dan_Ben_Michael
      @Dan_Ben_Michael 3 роки тому +5

      The world is poorer without his intelligence and wisdom.

    • @mlblja
      @mlblja 3 роки тому +7

      @@Dan_Ben_Michael Also, richer for having him here to lift us up.

    • @stovingtonprep3783
      @stovingtonprep3783 3 роки тому +2

      I thought you were talking about Johnny Carson; then I got to the end of your eulogy and stood corrected!😅

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 3 роки тому +2

      Death is a ponzi scheme proven by quantum physics a long time ago.

    • @scasey1960
      @scasey1960 3 роки тому +2

      There are any others, if you choose to listen.

  • @notgreg123
    @notgreg123 9 місяців тому +6

    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

  • @blt4life112
    @blt4life112 3 роки тому +585

    "All the way back in 1995" sounds strange when most people haven't even adapted to the 21st century yet.

    • @josephchase3240
      @josephchase3240 3 роки тому

      THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION WILL REWARC6YJYYÛXGGGGYY

    • @deefee701
      @deefee701 3 роки тому +33

      I'm 50 years old, and my first thought was "1995 wasn't 25 years ago!" Haha, how time flies.

    • @sieteocho
      @sieteocho 3 роки тому +26

      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.

    • @juangringo3906
      @juangringo3906 3 роки тому +3

      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

    • @gloriousdawnproductions
      @gloriousdawnproductions 3 роки тому

      This was 80s

  • @matthew-jy5jp
    @matthew-jy5jp 2 роки тому +51

    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.

  • @endthehate
    @endthehate 3 роки тому +400

    “a kind of celebration of ignorance”.
    wow did he ever nail that!!!!!

    •  3 роки тому +8

      Well to say that even in 1995 AFTER Clinton the right of center Democrat he was signed NAFTA , you had the start of FOX , Rush Limbaugh on radio and Newt Gengrich in the House, not a far leap to think of what is coming next.

    • @mrmark8603
      @mrmark8603 3 роки тому +1

      @@activatefiasco5843Jesus called! He hates you.

    • @activatefiasco5843
      @activatefiasco5843 3 роки тому

      @@mrmark8603*

    • @macforme
      @macforme 3 роки тому +4

      ​@@activatefiasco5843 Are you limited in vocabulary? You just repeat the same nonsense to everyone here.

    • @amramjose
      @amramjose 3 роки тому +4

      Just like a trumpian "nuremberg" rally.

  • @4cylfreak46
    @4cylfreak46 3 роки тому +562

    We should listen to more intellectuals and scholars. Hello? Studying never stops.

    • @georgeb.wolffsohn30
      @georgeb.wolffsohn30 3 роки тому +4

      You mean the intellectual elite 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱❗

    • @ARIZJOE
      @ARIZJOE 3 роки тому +27

      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.

    • @chrismacks3640
      @chrismacks3640 3 роки тому +13

      I'm still learning

    • @soulife8383
      @soulife8383 3 роки тому +9

      That makes you a radical leftist in 2021 though. Bigly.

    • @smexehcougah3
      @smexehcougah3 3 роки тому +10

      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.

  • @ghstletter5978
    @ghstletter5978 Рік тому +18

    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.🤯

  • @jlucumi
    @jlucumi 3 роки тому +327

    Some people are pure light in the darkness .. we miss you Carl Sagan. RIP

    • @alphabravo8703
      @alphabravo8703 3 роки тому +6

      ... and Christopher Hitchens.

    • @kristofferhellstrom
      @kristofferhellstrom 3 роки тому +1

      @@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.

    • @floatsting20
      @floatsting20 3 роки тому

      @@kristofferhellstrom Carl's explaining dumbing down. That would explain Brian Williams

    • @amywalker7515
      @amywalker7515 3 роки тому

      Remember Piggy in Lord of the Flies? Same thing. The only one making sense was killed.

  • @reyrecks
    @reyrecks 3 роки тому +1911

    “Celebration of ignorance” that one alone explains current events

    • @leemendham4788
      @leemendham4788 3 роки тому +18

      Who was it wrote, "when ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"?

    • @miketalas899
      @miketalas899 3 роки тому +88

      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!

    • @redwine641
      @redwine641 3 роки тому +20

      Yes indeed . I call it willful ignorance .

    • @marypatperego4147
      @marypatperego4147 3 роки тому +12

      @@leemendham4788 Thomas Gray, 1742

    • @MizaT11
      @MizaT11 3 роки тому +11

      People burning masks.

  • @janemarinelli2838
    @janemarinelli2838 3 роки тому +240

    When being a scientist, doctor or intellectual is a negative trait to so many people it’s become a very scary and sad world.

    • @alabastergreen7444
      @alabastergreen7444 3 роки тому +21

      It's a return to the European dark ages

    • @mlblja
      @mlblja 3 роки тому +28

      I'm pretty sure you can thank religions for that!

    • @GordoGambler
      @GordoGambler 3 роки тому +1

      @@mlblja ... The GloBULL warming religion. Zuckerberg has appointed himself the GOD of LEFTYISM. All anti-dogma dissenters are HERETICS.

    • @alabastergreen7444
      @alabastergreen7444 3 роки тому +32

      @@GordoGambler I think you just proved melvins point

    • @mlblja
      @mlblja 3 роки тому +22

      @@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.

  • @Myke664
    @Myke664 Рік тому +12

    “To me, not teaching science would be perverse.. when you’re in love you want to tell the world.” - Dr. Sagan

  • @matthewharris517
    @matthewharris517 3 роки тому +376

    Social Media is one of the biggest double edge swords in human history

    • @danielesposito9705
      @danielesposito9705 3 роки тому +8

      so is profitable news

    • @lilywondertwin
      @lilywondertwin 3 роки тому +6

      TV was much worse it did not let you generate your own content at all a slave to a box .

    • @jasonu3741
      @jasonu3741 3 роки тому +11

      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.

    • @ThongTrinh
      @ThongTrinh 3 роки тому +4

      @@danielesposito9705 and so is profitable prison systems.

    • @lexia4016
      @lexia4016 3 роки тому +2

      It’s just tittytainment to feed junk food into our brain so when don’t think

  • @eduardthornton1272
    @eduardthornton1272 3 роки тому +166

    He knew how stupid we were and would be and currently are

    • @shanehughes8528
      @shanehughes8528 3 роки тому +1

      No doubt.

    • @Matok1
      @Matok1 3 роки тому

      @@normalguycap And who put them in charge?

    • @4tarsus
      @4tarsus 3 роки тому +14

      George Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.”

    • @Rob_G716
      @Rob_G716 3 роки тому +3

      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

    • @watamatafoyu
      @watamatafoyu 3 роки тому

      The smartest of us pull the rest of us forward, the dumbest drag us down.

  • @letzsnuggzz
    @letzsnuggzz 3 роки тому +244

    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.

    • @randygibbons7817
      @randygibbons7817 3 роки тому +12

      There's a chance we'll be here to see things get better.

    • @Ian_Carolan
      @Ian_Carolan 3 роки тому +10

      @@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.

    • @smokingthereefer92
      @smokingthereefer92 3 роки тому +8

      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."

    • @dls951
      @dls951 3 роки тому +4

      If you listen to the crowd react to Segan's comments you'll notice laughter,
      back then they call such comments humor.

    • @isabt4
      @isabt4 3 роки тому +4

      Keep the faith, we all need to, and try to be the best we can ❤️

  • @Leen61
    @Leen61 Рік тому +51

    Most excellent video! Carl nailed it exactly 25 years ago.

  • @sheisntreal0_090
    @sheisntreal0_090 2 роки тому +2564

    A “celebration of ignorance” is exactly what we’re dealing with here and now, he hit the nail on the head!

    • @alweinhofer5453
      @alweinhofer5453 2 роки тому +60

      Especially in the White house

    • @leemcgee6586
      @leemcgee6586 2 роки тому +11

      Hilarious….BLM and Woke “racism” are dying Just watch.

    • @Swnsasy
      @Swnsasy 2 роки тому +59

      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

    • @andrewgates9333
      @andrewgates9333 2 роки тому +42

      Everyone start reading books.

    • @Carlos-sd6cz
      @Carlos-sd6cz 2 роки тому +88

      "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" - MLK

  • @ThatRandomBeatle
    @ThatRandomBeatle 3 роки тому +455

    “Chewbacca deserves a medal” - Carl Sagan

    • @DaveWraptastic
      @DaveWraptastic 3 роки тому +9

      I've never seen star wars but is that really true? At the end the human crew gets a medal but he doesn't?

    • @TheWholeKitAndCaboodle
      @TheWholeKitAndCaboodle 3 роки тому

      I can't give you a like (because nice), but I can say I 100% agree

    • @harrodsongs
      @harrodsongs 3 роки тому

      @@DaveWraptastic Yes, it's true.

    • @ultra1000
      @ultra1000 3 роки тому +9

      Chewbacca was oath bound to Han Solo, but i agree that he deserves a medal.

    • @JoelMcLaughlin
      @JoelMcLaughlin 3 роки тому +8

      Ever occur to anyone that Chewbacca may have declined to be awarded? We assume wookie culture would let him accept it.

  • @supermarioisacat
    @supermarioisacat 3 роки тому +308

    Sagan would be horrified to know those "10 second sound bites" have been reduced to mouse clicks.

    • @katieann9026
      @katieann9026 3 роки тому +17

      Literally just headlines. People get their news from headlines.

    • @DamienEarth
      @DamienEarth 3 роки тому +13

      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 ..

    • @duewhit310
      @duewhit310 3 роки тому +2

      My expert says so
      He speaks for us

    • @noone6559
      @noone6559 3 роки тому +5

      Or extended to a whole show by Tucker Carlson...

    • @binkysphinx
      @binkysphinx 3 роки тому +5

      He wouldn't have been horrified, he would have anticipated it as the natural next step in the regressive evolution of human consumption.

  • @danweaver3901
    @danweaver3901 2 роки тому +10

    "The Demon Haunted World" should be required reading. It's a depressingly accurate prediction of the shitshow we're in.

  • @AndiDuck
    @AndiDuck 3 роки тому +340

    "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." - Carl Sagan

    • @twilightgardenspresentatio6384
      @twilightgardenspresentatio6384 3 роки тому +15

      The failure of the public school system is cultural and intentional

    • @AndiDuck
      @AndiDuck 3 роки тому +5

      @@twilightgardenspresentatio6384
      Whatever troll! The topic is Carl Sagan !
      Try to keep up !

    • @billybarnes1763
      @billybarnes1763 3 роки тому +3

      @@AndiDuck sounds like you got left behind brother.

    • @AndiDuck
      @AndiDuck 3 роки тому +3

      @@billybarnes1763
      You sound like one of those weirdos who thinks the only gender on social media is male.

    • @billybarnes1763
      @billybarnes1763 3 роки тому +3

      @@AndiDuck wtf are you talking about? Do you even know?
      How far left behind are you? Getting a lil desperate....

  • @stephenschultz9901
    @stephenschultz9901 3 роки тому +36

    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.

    • @swayback7375
      @swayback7375 3 роки тому +5

      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.

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 3 роки тому

      True.

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 3 роки тому

      @@swayback7375
      It's never too late to graduate if you wanted to. There's lots of help out there.
      Good luck.

    • @sherrih6375
      @sherrih6375 3 місяці тому

      ​@@swayback7375I can tell that you haven't wasted your time; I suspect getting any degree that you want would not be difficult for you at all. Go for it!
      😊

  • @ToniGlick
    @ToniGlick 3 роки тому +70

    That excerpt gave me chills. That guy was a visionary. Too bad no one listened hard enough to stop it.

    • @josephlocher5958
      @josephlocher5958 3 роки тому +2

      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

  • @StompMom5
    @StompMom5 Рік тому +7

    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.

  • @Bertrand146
    @Bertrand146 3 роки тому +138

    "The United States has gone from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization." - Albert Einstein

    • @karllansche9843
      @karllansche9843 3 роки тому +6

      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,

    • @Bertrand146
      @Bertrand146 3 роки тому +4

      @@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).

    • @wordsculpt
      @wordsculpt 3 роки тому +2

      @@karllansche9843 Wilde.

    • @karllansche9843
      @karllansche9843 3 роки тому +2

      @@wordsculpt Wilde of course. thanks !

    • @briangriffin8106
      @briangriffin8106 3 роки тому +3

      Perfect words to sum up a nation in a single sentence.

  • @romeoromero808
    @romeoromero808 3 роки тому +395

    "A celebration of ignorance" hit it on the head with that one

    • @dryroasted5599
      @dryroasted5599 3 роки тому +11

      Pretty much describes the last four years!

    • @josephlinden1630
      @josephlinden1630 3 роки тому +3

      @@dryroasted5599 lol, no. Biden is destroying America. But that barbecue tho.

    • @jamespatrick3462
      @jamespatrick3462 3 роки тому +1

      Twitter and TikTok

    • @randybong5578
      @randybong5578 3 роки тому +2

      @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

    • @romeoromero808
      @romeoromero808 3 роки тому +2

      @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

  • @apok1980
    @apok1980 2 роки тому +1118

    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.

    • @spottss
      @spottss 2 роки тому +112

      We need more of your input please keep going

    • @robertnorwood9480
      @robertnorwood9480 2 роки тому +108

      Keep your head up brother! You spoke your peace quietly and clearly.

    • @aidanwuryan1008
      @aidanwuryan1008 2 роки тому +83

      I appreciated reading your thoughts man!

    • @RobinHerzig
      @RobinHerzig 2 роки тому +25

      Totally agree - and it's exactly why Sagan's predictions hit so hard
      (minor critique, hit ‘return’ when you feel like rambling 😏)

    • @failyourwaytothetop
      @failyourwaytothetop 2 роки тому +44

      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.

  • @ByCrom
    @ByCrom Рік тому +15

    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

  • @kevinw8276
    @kevinw8276 3 роки тому +147

    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.

    • @danceblues1713
      @danceblues1713 3 роки тому +7

      Agreed. Well said!💕

    • @wordsculpt
      @wordsculpt 3 роки тому +5

      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!

  • @niccoarcadia4179
    @niccoarcadia4179 3 роки тому +405

    The problem is most people WANT to live within their illusions.

    • @jobob47
      @jobob47 3 роки тому +33

      its easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
      human nature.

    • @SmashinAdams
      @SmashinAdams 3 роки тому +6

      Right, or rather their 'delusions'; Ignorance isn't 'bliss'. It can actually turn quickly into willful schizophrenia.

    • @jannacoyote4246
      @jannacoyote4246 3 роки тому +4

      That's because the late 20th century & the current 21st century realities have thoroughly *sucked* so far.

    • @srbaruchi
      @srbaruchi 3 роки тому +15

      @@jobob47 You just explained MAGA loyalism.

    • @dke17
      @dke17 3 роки тому +1

      Ignorance is bliss, after all...

  • @andrewross241
    @andrewross241 3 роки тому +42

    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)

    • @JoMactheJ
      @JoMactheJ 3 роки тому +1

      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

    • @MrBenjaminette
      @MrBenjaminette 3 роки тому +3

      @@JoMactheJ Not up in heaven, he was an atheist so knew heaven does not exist.

    • @jerrylanglois7892
      @jerrylanglois7892 3 роки тому

      Yea, dumin down an its getten more worser.

  • @MortalWeather
    @MortalWeather 4 місяці тому +1

    All excellent. Thank you. Brian Williams epitomizes integrity.

    • @remixandkaraoke
      @remixandkaraoke 3 місяці тому

      Brian Williams a known LIAR! He also is speaking about the people he works for in this video who are dumbing down the public!

  • @dr.awkward9075
    @dr.awkward9075 3 роки тому +159

    I went to my first Star Trek convention dressed as Chewbacca.
    It was a Wookiee mistake.

  • @waltlutz9897
    @waltlutz9897 3 роки тому +374

    Boy that last sentence about the media was right on. They are a huge factor in the "dumbing down......".

    • @dangeroustoaster2688
      @dangeroustoaster2688 3 роки тому +10

      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.

    • @Brendan-Black
      @Brendan-Black 3 роки тому +4

      @@Dcurc2257 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.

    •  3 роки тому +12

      @@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!

    • @expromanticart6491
      @expromanticart6491 3 роки тому +2

      You forgot Trump!

    • @paulsholar9356
      @paulsholar9356 3 роки тому

      Ever hear of the US FCC's Fairness Doctrine?

  • @Mitchthemysteryman
    @Mitchthemysteryman 3 роки тому +292

    Truth be told, most people in my generation could see this coming, as unfettered capitalism is bound to lead to fascism.

    • @garyoa1
      @garyoa1 3 роки тому +39

      And it really took root with the first "stab" at trickle down. Rapidly eroding the middle class. And... here we go again.

    • @spacelemur7955
      @spacelemur7955 3 роки тому +50

      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.

    • @Jhoekstra
      @Jhoekstra 3 роки тому +34

      Capitalism in the current form is highly destructive.

    • @thomasmccracken8819
      @thomasmccracken8819 3 роки тому +17

      Malignant Capitalism.

    • @Phoenix-m7i
      @Phoenix-m7i 3 роки тому +4

      @@spacelemur7955 Where to?

  • @MlSTA_GREEN
    @MlSTA_GREEN 2 місяці тому +1

    Still my favorite scientist. Almost 6 million views, MSNBC earned some of my respect for airing this.

  • @philllsxga.7737
    @philllsxga.7737 3 роки тому +262

    What about George Carlin????
    He talked about everything going on today in the 70s!! History repeats itself...

    • @MariaMaria-uf4lq
      @MariaMaria-uf4lq 3 роки тому +16

      George was a genius!!! People are still playing catch up to the fact he was showing us truth all the time. Ignorance creates a comfortability that truth will simply not allow! Soon we will all feel the difference if not already!

    • @paireon3419
      @paireon3419 3 роки тому +22

      Sagan talked about that in the 70s too. They are both dearly missed.

    • @bryceanderson6437
      @bryceanderson6437 3 роки тому +5

      Ya like they're in a club and you ain't in it!

    • @philllsxga.7737
      @philllsxga.7737 3 роки тому

      @@bryceanderson6437 you got it!!!

    • @perrycorsetti3674
      @perrycorsetti3674 3 роки тому +2

      We needed GC for president

  • @Marchant2
    @Marchant2 2 роки тому +308

    If only being smart and educated meant something to virtually everyone like it used to.

    • @Nightbird.
      @Nightbird. 2 роки тому

      Trump MAGA followers and Covidiots are proof of the dumbing down of America.

    • @janetduncan87
      @janetduncan87 2 роки тому +5

      Because being book smart doesn't mean you have common sense or can think for yourself. Usually. I do think he was able to collect information he received and he was able to break it down and put it into his own way of thinking. He was obviously able to think for himself and not take everything he was taught from books as the truth. Using star wars is a good example of what we are. All the different creatures resemble different cultures and stero types. It doesn't mean there are other Galaxys, but its symbolic to the nature of ppl, and quite possibly our future.

    • @charleshartlen3914
      @charleshartlen3914 2 роки тому +22

      @@janetduncan87 hi how are you? explain how cancer research is a common sense or related to common sense or requires common sense to save millions of lives? In this way many of our societal issues are exterior to what common sense solutions can address. Thanks and read a book

    • @TheShattenjager
      @TheShattenjager 2 роки тому +14

      Just please not the bible lol.

    • @user8ZAKC1X6KC
      @user8ZAKC1X6KC 2 роки тому +5

      People have never wanted to be smart and educated. They just have ALWAYS thought they already are.

  • @MelioraCogito
    @MelioraCogito 2 роки тому +421

    _“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._

    • @brianmax1301
      @brianmax1301 2 роки тому +4

      Mejiora he said that long before he passed away . I am so glad he became a believer on his death bed .
      Nice try tho .

    • @rustyoak8860
      @rustyoak8860 2 роки тому +22

      @@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.

    • @chuckmaceanruig
      @chuckmaceanruig 2 роки тому +31

      @@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

    • @brianmax1301
      @brianmax1301 2 роки тому +2

      @@chuckmaceanruig Quoting Newsweek is like quoting CNN .
      LOL

    • @chuckmaceanruig
      @chuckmaceanruig 2 роки тому +23

      @@brianmax1301 Denying reality is a sign of psychosis.

  • @ssabykoops
    @ssabykoops 10 місяців тому +2

    Carl died when I was a young boy, but boy oh boy did he change my life forever.

  • @harrisfleming7431
    @harrisfleming7431 3 роки тому +632

    And how about some praise for Johnny Carson in having a "public intellectual" on his show and having a legitimate conversation? You don't see much (if any) of that today.

    • @CBS1909
      @CBS1909 3 роки тому +21

      You do if you follow Bill Maher..

    • @harrisfleming7431
      @harrisfleming7431 3 роки тому +24

      @@CBS1909 Johnny Carson was smart, funny, a good listener, a good interviewer, and someone who never tried to show anyone up but still owned the room. So, they don't have much in common

    • @goddessservant6669
      @goddessservant6669 3 роки тому +25

      Hail yeah !!! Johnny Carson goofed around a lot but when he had intellectuals on or people that had a knowledge base Bobby Fischer whatever he seemed to always ask reasonably intelligent questions and not laugh like a buffoon for the entire time.
      I miss Johnny Carson and I'm old enough to remember when he was on TV

    • @sherryblack8942
      @sherryblack8942 3 роки тому +16

      The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert have non-actors/performers on at times, but could do more to cover science.

    • @stellamaris5405
      @stellamaris5405 3 роки тому +5

      @@harrisfleming7431 ☘️ You're spot on there! 😉

  • @mistresskeke
    @mistresskeke 3 роки тому +117

    The pale blue dot. Carl gifts us so much truth, eloquently delivered.

  • @meme-rk4tz
    @meme-rk4tz 3 роки тому +502

    Intelligence has been replaced with emotions and most are too dumb to see it.

    • @Iamrhythmrogue
      @Iamrhythmrogue 3 роки тому +7

      true dat!

    • @bernieflanders8822
      @bernieflanders8822 3 роки тому +20

      They haven't learnt that superstition and religious radicalism cause nothing but hysteria and mis-information. Just ask the innocent women burnt at the stake for being 'witches' and men tortured for daring to be of scientific dispositions during the inquisition.

    • @justcallmeandrew942
      @justcallmeandrew942 3 роки тому +4

      You can't "replace" intelligence with emotions. It is just a lack thereof intelligence.
      You'll have to elaborate more on the emotional bit, because I just might be too dumb to see it 🤷

    • @kabam5957
      @kabam5957 3 роки тому +6

      PEOPLE ARE PUTTING THIS GUY ON A PEDESTAL THAT HE DOESNT DESERVE TO BE ON! The DINOSAURS HAD FEW HUNDRED MILLIONS OF YEARS TO EVOLVE AND YET NO SENTIENT SPECIES. HUMAN ARE AROUND FOR 2 MILLION AND WE ARE HYPER EVOLVED????? HUMAN EVOLUTION IS A JOKE, NO WAY IT HAPPENED NATURALLY. LOOK AT OUR DNA AND YOU WILL FIND A TON OF EDITING!!!!! WHO EDITED IT, FOR SURE IT WASNT NATURE!!!!!!

    • @goyonman9655
      @goyonman9655 3 роки тому +5

      This comment is a prime example of that

  • @jayumble8390
    @jayumble8390 6 місяців тому +1

    This is, oh man, there are so many words for this...sobering is one word that comes to mind. Thank you for this.

  • @jamesmccarte1609
    @jamesmccarte1609 3 роки тому +214

    And this segment fails to mention his warnings about the climate and declining biodiversity. He talked about those things in his documentary "Cosmos"

    • @mlblja
      @mlblja 3 роки тому +3

      I used to watch that all the time. One of my favorite shows.

    • @jamesmccarte1609
      @jamesmccarte1609 3 роки тому +5

      @@mlblja The sequels by Neil deGrasse Tyson are awesome too

    • @mlblja
      @mlblja 3 роки тому +3

      @@jamesmccarte1609 They sure are!

    • @TheBatmanjb
      @TheBatmanjb 3 роки тому +2

      It's already been prophesized in the holy Bible Jesus Christ spoke of everything that's coming

    • @petrol11
      @petrol11 3 роки тому +5

      @@TheBatmanjb sure he did sweetheart

  • @whatnow2626
    @whatnow2626 2 роки тому +518

    "Whoever controls the media controls the mind." - Jim Morrison

    • @MoeToOFFeR
      @MoeToOFFeR 2 роки тому +22

      The weak mind*

    • @lightbeing8174
      @lightbeing8174 2 роки тому +4

      @@MoeToOFFeR Jesus christ had a strong mind.

    • @messagedeleted4307
      @messagedeleted4307 2 роки тому +1

      *controls the weak mind. The individual unable to think for himself -- the liberal.

    • @bypinkerton892
      @bypinkerton892 2 роки тому +8

      Yep & it's BG right now.... Who also runs... World Health.... That we blindly obey....

    • @grl9917
      @grl9917 2 роки тому

      He died drunk and drugged.

  • @winonabannon8556
    @winonabannon8556 3 роки тому +3404

    A celebration of ignorance. Perfectly said Carl Sagan.

    • @Grunchy005
      @Grunchy005 3 роки тому +114

      It’s easier to go to church and leave all the thinking to your exploiters. It’s hard to grab a brain when you don’t have one...

    • @grandwonder5858
      @grandwonder5858 3 роки тому +165

      "A celebration of ignorance" --- Republican slogan.

    • @petyrkowalski9887
      @petyrkowalski9887 3 роки тому +134

      That sums up any and all cults and organised religion, Trump included.

    • @onlythewise1
      @onlythewise1 3 роки тому +8

      he was very ignorant

    • @sarahshah7932
      @sarahshah7932 3 роки тому +80

      @@onlythewise1 Crikey! Just how many degrees do you hold, if you think a man with 4 degrees was ignorant?👀

  • @lindaward3156
    @lindaward3156 8 місяців тому +2

    I knew his first wife, an evolutionary biologist (among other credentials) and heard her influence in his perspective. How interesting

  • @minusp895
    @minusp895 3 роки тому +578

    "Big bellies, fat thighs, and dumb kids." -George Carlin

    • @emiliaabeyta159
      @emiliaabeyta159 3 роки тому +23

      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
      @isha9300 3 роки тому +2

      😃?

    • @Cheetah-tz3ut
      @Cheetah-tz3ut 3 роки тому +5

      @@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

    • @ronndapagan
      @ronndapagan 3 роки тому +5

      The kids that have a disability work harder than the "dumb and normal"kids.

    • @land7776
      @land7776 3 роки тому

      @@emiliaabeyta159 is ORE an organization?

  • @1966425
    @1966425 3 роки тому +234

    So he predicted the Kardashians, social media dependence, today's music and movies, our politicians and the very 'news' networks that this was aired on.

    • @TheMelodyShawtysLike
      @TheMelodyShawtysLike 3 роки тому +4

      ok unrelated but i like your profile picture☺️

    • @philb3654
      @philb3654 3 роки тому +2

      Jose, touche!

    • @MrJohnnyDistortion
      @MrJohnnyDistortion 3 роки тому +2

      You forgot to add future hurricanes, natural disasters and NHL Stanley Cup winners.

    • @derrellthomas239
      @derrellthomas239 3 роки тому

      Basically, yeah. DUH

    • @TeamTwiistz
      @TeamTwiistz 3 роки тому

      You can still watch entertainment and be educated lol. It’s just people are lazy and ignorant

  • @ladywhispers111
    @ladywhispers111 3 роки тому +387

    I have worked in customer service for 30 years, and I knew people were really stupid. When you deal with the public day in, and out you get a sense of ignorance as a whole.
    That being said, in my wildest dream, I never thought the American people were as ignorant as they have shown themselves to be in the last couple of years.
    The biggest tragedy by far is the lack of education and ignorance in this country. Our educational system seriously needs to be looked at and completely redone.
    We are going the wrong way as a species. We should be getting smarter and more informed, yet as Carl Sagan said would happen is happening.
    If I were a young person living in this age, I would NOT have children and bring them into this mess.

    • @promerops
      @promerops 2 роки тому +33

      To my great regret, I can only agree with your last sentence.

    • @earlmorton6265
      @earlmorton6265 2 роки тому +27

      I have 11 grandchildren.
      I great grandson.
      In. January 2022 we're having another great grandson.
      In June we'll have yet another great grandson.
      This world is a frightening place to as an adult.
      I'm sad and fearful for our grandchildren.

    • @andreak4280
      @andreak4280 2 роки тому +4

      🎯🎯🎯

    • @ladywhispers111
      @ladywhispers111 2 роки тому +17

      @@earlmorton6265, I truly hear your concern. I have one granddaughter. She is my little sweetheart. But I would not wish this mess of a world on her.

    • @ronmix39
      @ronmix39 2 роки тому +6

      We have an indoctrination program called our educational system, on purpose. All a means to an end. "The USA was created to bring about a new world order." William Milton "Bill" Cooper

  • @happystar7777
    @happystar7777 2 роки тому +12

    Wow. He really did describe the whole thing. Goosebumps

  • @Tapecutter59
    @Tapecutter59 3 роки тому +85

    That book should be compulsory reading for first year HS students, particularly in the US.

    • @lynnrobinson8885
      @lynnrobinson8885 3 роки тому +2

      I’d like to agree, except he was correct about the “dumbing down” that HAS taken place, especially in the U.S.…high school students probably wouldn’t understand it, IF they could read it…

    • @runman624
      @runman624 3 роки тому +1

      Unfortunately that wouldn't work
      We're in a catch-22 because of the situation, school aren't good and that would hinder trying people to teach this, and a school sucks, people don't want to learn from them

    • @kvr22_
      @kvr22_ 3 роки тому +2

      Being a high school student, this is a book I would be more than interested in reading, it could at the very least be a good read to make us think and at best something that can help us future generations completely rethink and restructure our society, government, etc.

    • @lynnrobinson8885
      @lynnrobinson8885 3 роки тому +1

      @@kvr22_ Then you are already aware of the importance of all books! I believe you would be interested in reading it. Problem is, not as many people as you think would. All good writing deserves to be shared, but it helps to be pointed in the right direction. And all good writers serve their craft best when they succeed in inspiring others to participate in their own form of creativity, actively or passively. There have been so many richly talented writers, but he was one of my favourites, for many reasons. Dr. Sagan, with his 4 degrees, was as unassuming as he was amusing! 🙂
      …and then one day, he was called upon to give his tired, but still intellectually creative, atoms back up to the collective of what is our Universe.

  • @alexsessa7437
    @alexsessa7437 2 роки тому +513

    My father was a fan of Carl Sagan and incidentally he passed away in 2021. A quote by Sagan was read during his memorial service.

    • @Anicius_
      @Anicius_ 2 роки тому +12

      Which quote

    • @Anicius_
      @Anicius_ 2 роки тому +3

      Lol alan i got notification of your comment but it's not showing here unfortunately. Why would they block a comment?

    • @carle5538
      @carle5538 2 роки тому +11

      I also lost mom in 2021. God bless your father.

    • @alexmuenster2102
      @alexmuenster2102 2 роки тому +6

      >>A quote by Sagan was read during his memorial service.

    • @mr.praiseworthy6306
      @mr.praiseworthy6306 2 роки тому +1

      Neat

  • @raymondmartin6737
    @raymondmartin6737 3 роки тому +481

    He was a genius, such as his Cosmos series.
    We do miss his mind and intellect. He was 62 when he passed, I was 51, now I am fortunate to be 77, I wish he was 88 now.

    • @shanehenderson8756
      @shanehenderson8756 3 роки тому +14

      A genius ? Obviously the bar is set low these days. Just Like the word hero .

    • @michellecongdon6220
      @michellecongdon6220 3 роки тому +12

      Hi Raymond your not fortunate to be the age you are you are blessed! That man might have been very smart yet so very foolish to not believe and almighty God! The Lord took him early didn't he! I hope and pray that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and savior! I'm 51 years old now and my name is Michelle and I would love to pray with you or just even talk to you if you would like? Just post me back. John 3:16 Says It All!

    • @michaeladams2077
      @michaeladams2077 3 роки тому +11

      @@michellecongdon6220 so what your saying is people who live long are blessed?
      Like do we really have to bring up the Almighty? Not all of us were born into Church or live the same way.
      Let the deceased man get some "media" hype

    • @johnphantom
      @johnphantom 3 роки тому +6

      He was a genius, but he didn't realize this "everybody is special" crap got us people that reject science, holding their opinion higher than the factual evidence.

    • @duncanwcraig9668
      @duncanwcraig9668 3 роки тому +9

      I am 52 now. Carl Sagan is my hero.

  • @turanga35
    @turanga35 7 місяців тому +1

    We need you now more than ever Carl.

  • @okeanos2100
    @okeanos2100 3 роки тому +77

    "In science, it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." - Carl Sagan

    • @freshstart4423
      @freshstart4423 3 роки тому +1

      So we can circumvent the politics by re-register as no party voters and no party candidates.
      His degrees are worthless.
      We can circumvent criminal lawyers with federal licensing of lawyers without the BAR ASSOCIATION. then they can't reduce their own felonies to a misdemeanor and continue to practice law.
      We can reduce Healthcare costs by telling every doctor to treat every patient without designating a "specialist " for an extra charge.

    • @JoelMcLaughlin
      @JoelMcLaughlin 3 роки тому

      Carl just not have studied religion much....

    • @briangeiger9307
      @briangeiger9307 3 роки тому +1

      Change never happen? Wasn't it happening the entire summer with business burned down and statues pulled down. Every person said I was wrong, but now I am "woke". Every four years, we change political party. Isn't that change. We voted for one party, then realize they were wrong, then we go the other way.
      When was the last time scientist admitted the origin of life on this planet is completely impossible. Having life travel to us from another life bearing planet is practically impossible as well. I am still waiting for scientist to say they were wrong when they said COVID can never come from a lab.

    • @peterwilson8039
      @peterwilson8039 3 роки тому

      @@JoelMcLaughlin Religion is based on faith. A rejection of faith is heresy.

    • @novida4770
      @novida4770 3 роки тому +3

      @@briangeiger9307 scientists such as the head of the Wuhan lab came out days after the outbreak saying it could've been/most likely been a viral leak due to mismanagement of funds. It wasn't the scientists covering up a story... the outbreak and its handling by rich folk and rich politicians, supports sagans theory.

  • @hulaGUNZ
    @hulaGUNZ 3 роки тому +115

    nobody could say the word 'billions' like good ol' Dr. Carl

    • @02markcal
      @02markcal 3 роки тому +5

      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.

    • @weareparamore1597
      @weareparamore1597 3 роки тому +2

      Billions in billions

    • @randygibbons7817
      @randygibbons7817 3 роки тому +6

      The antithesis of Trump's billions.

    • @EuroScot2023
      @EuroScot2023 3 роки тому +2

      Wait! The Trumpist idiots would say he couldn't call himself Dr Sagan because he's not a medic.

    • @arlenmargolin1650
      @arlenmargolin1650 3 роки тому

      I think McDonald's was about to launch an advertising campaign using Carl Sagan to proclaim that there were billions and billions served

  • @LadyDuchess
    @LadyDuchess 3 роки тому +229

    “The Dumbdemic” is gonna be our ruin.

    • @BlueRidgeMtns100
      @BlueRidgeMtns100 3 роки тому +12

      Yep. Dunning-Kruger looked at Covid and said "Hold my beer."

    • @armyofmuppets2234
      @armyofmuppets2234 3 роки тому +3

      Right, but most mofo's who are dumb as dogshit think they are smart. Like Joe Roegen said if they came out with a test, something like a pregnancy's test for dumb people, people would have boxes stacked to the roofs of their apartments angrily denying the fact that the test... never lies.

    • @armyofmuppets2234
      @armyofmuppets2234 3 роки тому +8

      The problem is that when you take those people in stack them in two separate groups.. Stupid gets louder.... and louder.... and looooouder!

    • @jimmym3352
      @jimmym3352 3 роки тому +2

      It's a bit exaggerated by Sagan. He may be smart, but he's no god. Though he probably wouldn't want to see our current TikTok videos. That said, I can find many intelligent thought out videos on UA-cam, I'm a watcher of many of them. Things like UA-cam actually provide a platform for these things to exist which aren't financially feasible to exist on network or even cable tv (look what happened to the discovery channel and history channel). There's more opportunities than ever for smart people to learn new things, and many of them do.
      But we do have some serious demographic problems in that the lower IQ people are vastly out reproducing higher IQ people. We are already starting to see labor shortages because Americans just aren't skilled or smart enough to fill many jobs. The labor shortages will become catastrophic in 30 years I predict, with you unable to get any quality medical care or have competent engineers to even build buildings and bridges (though computers can largely solve this problem).
      That said, the problem isn't insurmountable. I do believe a small skilled set of intelligent people can lead a nation of largely useless unskilled laborers, the problem will be keeping the unemployed happy so they don't rebel.

    • @sueneilson896
      @sueneilson896 3 роки тому +2

      Idiocracy is the name.

  • @baba00eddy
    @baba00eddy 2 роки тому +6

    Truely a message the world desperately needs to hear and actualize.

  • @ambesa1
    @ambesa1 3 роки тому +61

    When a YT person recognizes that race should include everyone on this earth not just one 👍🏽

    • @MrDeedsly
      @MrDeedsly 3 роки тому +2

      Carl Sagan has been dead for decades dude. He was a good man.

    • @TRex-dd4ze
      @TRex-dd4ze 3 роки тому +1

      What does that even mean? Race should include races? Are you talking about the "lack of diversity" in Star Wars when it comes to the actors who played human characters in that movie? The actors who played those roles were very much representative of the US population at that time (and all time prior). This was a movie made in the 1970s, and probably dreamed up by Lucas in the 1950s. It's a movie made in the USA for a US audience and thus had a US cast. Would actually be quite bizarre if it was anything else. The other 190+ countries in the world can make their own movies for their own audiences, and they do, and surely a lot of their local population is cast in their movies too.

    • @jaychip1
      @jaychip1 3 роки тому

      @@TRex-dd4ze no, the US population was diverse then, actors however were not.

    • @TRex-dd4ze
      @TRex-dd4ze 3 роки тому

      @@jaychip1 There are more than white people in Star Wars. And the US population in the 1950s as well in the 1800s and 1700s etc was 85 to 90% white buddy. The remainder % almost all black people. And in many towns and cities we're talking close to 100% white. It's stats and facts. In the 1970s it was being changed by the government but still very similar numbers. So Star Wars is representative of the US. Not sure if Carl Sagan, being Jewish, identifies more as Jewish or as more white in the Anglo tradition of most Americans or not. But either way Star Wars was representative of the US population and is representative of American people.

  • @mikeoxbig9392
    @mikeoxbig9392 3 роки тому +1534

    If Carl Sagan were alive today, the Trump cult would call for his imprisonment.

    • @professordogwood8985
      @professordogwood8985 3 роки тому +194

      If Carl Sagan were alive today, none of the Trump followers would have any idea who he is.

    • @jakeplourde
      @jakeplourde 3 роки тому +74

      Actually, if he were alive today, he’d be trying to claw his way out of the casket.

    • @philscott7949
      @philscott7949 3 роки тому +116

      They chanted "lock up Fauci" at the mass infection events.

    • @smiller2044
      @smiller2044 3 роки тому +10

      @@jakeplourde 😁 zombie Sagan might not be a great idea. . .

    • @atomicsmith
      @atomicsmith 3 роки тому +44

      @@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?

  • @markbowermaster369
    @markbowermaster369 3 роки тому +491

    Here’s some unsolicited advice. Read every Sagan book! You will be better for it.

    • @brandyhouston2105
      @brandyhouston2105 3 роки тому +12

      Couldn't you tell something was wrong with Carl Sagan? ....oh, ya he was to smart for this over-populated planet of nincompoops.

    • @erikbuchanan4648
      @erikbuchanan4648 3 роки тому +9

      Demon haunted world should be taught in schools, especially the techniques to develop a baloney detection kit.

    • @oofbruh2607
      @oofbruh2607 3 роки тому +1

      Definitely unsolicited advice

    • @incrediblestepsProd
      @incrediblestepsProd 3 роки тому +4

      yep and while your at , read the CLASSICS as well

    • @oofbruh2607
      @oofbruh2607 3 роки тому +2

      @@incrediblestepsProd sorry I never learned how to read

  • @pauls2613
    @pauls2613 2 роки тому

    Thanks finally MSNBC for being honest of what an intellect says! Please more of this!

  • @proudliberal605
    @proudliberal605 3 роки тому +47

    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.

    • @CanonicalVariable
      @CanonicalVariable 3 роки тому +6

      Same here! I went into theoretical physics because of Sagan.

    • @4343DEB
      @4343DEB 3 роки тому

      Well done...there are few people who deserve the status of being the epitome of greatness.

    • @berthabridges3483
      @berthabridges3483 3 роки тому +1

      He had a beautiful mind.

  • @jamesstuart3346
    @jamesstuart3346 3 роки тому +45

    Then: I'll believe it when I see it
    Now: I'll see it when I believe it

  • @muttleycrew
    @muttleycrew 3 роки тому +117

    Sagan was a genius

    • @dHolbach77
      @dHolbach77 3 роки тому +2

      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.

    • @smiller2044
      @smiller2044 3 роки тому +2

      Muttley think he summed it up when speaking in that Carson interview on Star Wars where diversity is lacking and the few are privileged.

    • @amandaobrien6531
      @amandaobrien6531 3 роки тому +4

      An a stable Genius ! unlike the Moron who occupied the Oval Office and claimed he was a stable Genius and NOT even close .

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 роки тому +2

      Love Muttley 😘🐶 that dog in Star Wars should have gotten a medal! 😆

    • @Litevaar
      @Litevaar 3 роки тому +16

      @@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.

  • @ApertureClockwork
    @ApertureClockwork 2 роки тому +1

    “Unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true.” Wow

  • @Jabranalibabry
    @Jabranalibabry 3 роки тому +157

    Justice for Chewie! Sagan is dearly missed

    • @Jonadiaz07
      @Jonadiaz07 3 роки тому

      He got his medal in Ep 9

    • @mattdavis9601
      @mattdavis9601 3 роки тому +1

      @@Jonadiaz07 I'm sorry; but they only made 6 Star Wars movies and a couple of TV series. No holiday specials and no sequel movies exist. :-D

    • @Jonadiaz07
      @Jonadiaz07 3 роки тому +1

      @@mattdavis9601 In Filoni we trust, somedays I wish we had the MIB device so we could un see them but at least the wookie got his 🥇

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 3 роки тому +2

      I prefer the original explanation that Chewbacca's culture had a taboo against medals and that letting him shout in an otherwise silent ceremony was a way of honoring his culture.
      But yeah, Sagan was cool. Go back and look at his interviews from the late sixties. And also note that Joni Mitchell was a fan back then. The lyrics to "Woodstock" were inspired by "an astrophysicist" she saw on television.

    • @ZuluLifesaBeech-
      @ZuluLifesaBeech- 3 роки тому +1

      @@mattdavis9601 Well, there was the one BAD Star Wars Wookie Holiday Special with Art Carney. Han Solo looked like he was stoned in it. 😂

  • @laurahiggins6427
    @laurahiggins6427 3 роки тому +230

    Celebration of ignorance is so true I miss the days when if you did something stupid you felt shame and kept it to yourself. Now people post every dumb thing they do online with no shame at all. It’s embarrassing how stupid people are and they seem proud of it.

    • @godfearingheathen
      @godfearingheathen 3 роки тому +11

      The election of a certain president says it all.

    • @amsb4dafunk406
      @amsb4dafunk406 3 роки тому +6

      Bogtrotter
      No one believes
      That
      Fool is the "president".

    • @dapto234
      @dapto234 3 роки тому +5

      Apparently it all revolves around how many "likes" you get ...or something......beats me.🙄

    • @macraghnaill3553
      @macraghnaill3553 3 роки тому +3

      @@godfearingheathen you mean Biden?

    • @mikechialastri7777
      @mikechialastri7777 3 роки тому

      Right on,

  • @ipainthouses9591
    @ipainthouses9591 2 роки тому +189

    "human chauvinism", "celebration of ignorance"- thank you Carl.

    • @MrJoeybabe25
      @MrJoeybabe25 2 роки тому +6

      I identify as a human and I celebrate man's supremacy. Almost every other animal is at the same state of existence they were at billions and billions of years ago.
      I treasure mankind. The world is an empty place, intellectually, otherwise.

    • @soulextract640
      @soulextract640 2 роки тому

      @@MrJoeybabe25 The state of a human mind to live and to have something more will only ceased to exist when the human race chooses its path. And that's no joke, we bout to be living in one of them post worlds were there's just chaos and wartorn city's

    • @mudriderfx4
      @mudriderfx4 2 роки тому

      Identify as a black Asian attack helicopter

    • @iowamandolinanddobro7376
      @iowamandolinanddobro7376 2 роки тому

      if you are going to comment on a Carl Sagan video, at least have even a small bit of knowledge of what you are talking about. If you go back a billion years, earth has progressed from single celled organisms, sea creatures, plants, reptiles, dinosaurs, mammals, birds, primates, and within the last 4-5 million years what could be considered modern humans. Celebration of ignorance? Exhibit A above.

    • @ipainthouses9591
      @ipainthouses9591 2 роки тому

      @@iowamandolinanddobro7376 Furthermore, I think octopuses are smarter and better adapted to their environment than we humans. They use ink and disguise to escape their predators. We have to run and hide from very scientifically advanced bullets, and we move around by starting billions of extremely hot little explosions, burning the remains of dead species, filling the air with poison particles. Some think that a god gave us all this speed and power. She know we like power. She knows we're too immature to handle true power. But she lets us run amok anyway. Enjoy your plastic infused air and water. Enjoy your hearty belittling and subjugation of all species and all persons you disagree with. I'm sure you have YOUR God's blessings.

  • @BGTuyau
    @BGTuyau Рік тому +1

    I clicked for Carl Sagan, got Brian Williams. Shouldn't have ignored the MSNBC logo ...

  • @wearecool3736
    @wearecool3736 3 роки тому +174

    It's ironic that he's describing the very media that's reporting on him.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 3 роки тому +3

      And look at the first clip used to 'express' Carl Sagan.
      Arguably his most 'silly & fun' example of his thoughts.
      Why not show a clip from 'Pale Blue Dot'? No offense to Johnny, but... he was merely a well-paid comedian and not much of anything else, I'm afraid.

    • @ginodc5944
      @ginodc5944 3 роки тому +1

      My thoughts exactly as I was watching lol.

    • @t.c.3027
      @t.c.3027 3 роки тому +1

      How could he not & be truthful!😊

    • @Brendan-Black
      @Brendan-Black 3 роки тому

      It's amusing that you don't realize MSNBC *isn't* the media Sagan was speaking about but rather it's rightwing propaganda media that he was foreseeing; aka Fox, Newsmax and OAN, just to name a few.

    • @pauloneill9880
      @pauloneill9880 3 роки тому

      @@Brendan-Black incorrect, he means all.

  • @SDChargersFreak
    @SDChargersFreak 2 роки тому +622

    Sagan had the gift of being able to explain difficult scientific concepts in a way that simple-minded folks such as myself could actually comprehend. He wasn't just brilliant; he could effectively communicate the ideas from his brilliant mind to teach others.

    • @anothercomment3451
      @anothercomment3451 2 роки тому +3

      Explaining ANYthing to simple-minded folks WOULD be perceived BY the simple-minded as "brilliant". But taking time & effort to verify the info, one comes to recognize the absence of logic and actual knowledge.
      TESLA discussed "gravity", and the lack thereof ... Brilliantly.

    • @liman42
      @liman42 2 роки тому +15

      @@anothercomment3451
      Are you saying Carl Sagan wasn't a real genius and just bamboozled those that would listen? What did he ever say that was wrong?

    • @anothercomment3451
      @anothercomment3451 2 роки тому +2

      @@liman42 Uh .... the whole concept of reaching outer space & the glober b.s.? Just look at 2 things: Pics of old blasts from the 60s, and the official 'curve' chart data. The blast area alone is 125 miles wide, i have read - so, where is the 9,666 bending of the horizontal horizon.
      Those pics show the entire photo of flat horizon, on each side of the blast plume - so, I do not see ANY curve, let alone about 20,000 ft.
      I am only being logical, not adversarial.
      Then, consider the suez canal - constructed level flat....but the 100 continuous miles of construction has no 6,666' bend that i know of.
      Hey...Do pilots nose-down every few minutes?
      IF i could see the evidence, I would cheer loudly!!

    • @liman42
      @liman42 2 роки тому +9

      @Another Comment
      Oh, and altitude above the earth an airplane flies needs to be consistent so yes, as you travel the altitude, to be constant, has to be corrected otherwise the plane would continue to climb until it reached it's structural limits. That's what autopilot does. It makes automatic corrections for course and altitude. That's what a pilot would have to do if autopilot wasn't engaged although there are other factors involved.
      " For every 60 nautical miles the airplane flies in a straight line, it has to pitch down 1 degree. But since pilots have to make constant adjustments to keep the plane leveled and maintain altitude, and since 1 small degree over 60 miles is impossible for a human being to notice, those adjustments come out as noise."

    • @anothercomment3451
      @anothercomment3451 2 роки тому

      @@liman42 You must be consulting WikiPeddleCrap.
      At 500 mph, airPLANES would nose-down every 3 minutes. Pilots DO know this. AirPLANE windows are fisheye - to make the curve.
      Do combustible engines work in a vacuum?
      Hey, i have done my homework SINCE Disney's "magic". No delay when Nixon spoke to "the moon" guys ... not back then. I'd think a.i. or something altered that - similar to that Mandella Effect stuff.
      It is called Sea LEVEL for a reason. (to mock the gullible and comatose eyeballs)
      Did ya know the astronots are freemasons? Ever nitice satanic missiin patch symbols?
      Ever wonder y PLANEts are named for pagan gods?
      (words do matter ... as in Uranus, Dark matter Black holes and that poop shaped stuff nasa animated for folks. Ever hear of Mr.Marble? Mocking folks! C'MON now! 😆)

  • @not_the_vampire
    @not_the_vampire 3 роки тому +28

    "...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.

    • @dawnemile4974
      @dawnemile4974 3 роки тому

      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.

    • @alicewhite7945
      @alicewhite7945 3 роки тому +1

      @@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.

  • @WilliamHearnTOEFL_Tutor
    @WilliamHearnTOEFL_Tutor Рік тому +3

    Carl Sagan was speaking of modern day Democrats. How apropos that this be aired on MSNBC.

  • @bigs1546
    @bigs1546 3 роки тому +123

    And Issac Asimov said; "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent". So many great minds ignored. Shameful.

    • @MsRebel
      @MsRebel 3 роки тому +3

      That's been going on since the birth of white America. Nothing changes. Humans are destructive selfish beings. Selfish destruction is stupidity.

    • @MsRebel
      @MsRebel 3 роки тому

      @K Babylon you assume I'm uneducated in history and not well traveled. Your assumptions are wrong. Try again.

    • @bretz9276
      @bretz9276 3 роки тому +1

      It's actually about knowledgeably questioning authority
      'slide without noticing'

    • @erniebuchinski3614
      @erniebuchinski3614 3 роки тому +2

      @@MsRebel Do you really think it has only to do with "white America"? No, you try again, and perhaps leave out your obvious racial prejudice, as it brings nothing positive to the discussion. If you do, you might be taken seriously by an educated person, which, for some reason, you fancy yourself to be, apparently.

    • @googlemeet6385
      @googlemeet6385 3 роки тому

      @@bretz9276 questioning authority, however, is a strong libertarian trait, and the democrats are kind of on the opposite side of that spectrum...

  • @forktailedDevilP-38J91
    @forktailedDevilP-38J91 3 роки тому +331

    Sagan's quotes literally gave me chills from how accurately he described what has happened to us 25 yrs. ago. WOW!

    • @grandwonder5858
      @grandwonder5858 3 роки тому +24

      He basically described the Republicans of today, especially those Trumpturds!

    • @miapdx503
      @miapdx503 3 роки тому +10

      @@grandwonder5858 he didn't know they would form a huge, ignorant kkkult. And cults never end well. 🤡

    • @spongedebfatpants1308
      @spongedebfatpants1308 3 роки тому +2

      @@grandwonder5858 TDS much?

    • @thomascampbell5633
      @thomascampbell5633 3 роки тому

      @@spongedebfatpants1308 No more so than is warranted by the truth.

    • @danielmatuska795
      @danielmatuska795 3 роки тому +1

      @@grandwonder5858 I didn't realize the road to idiocracy was republican. I guess it depends upon whether you think a group of insulated elitists can find more useful truth than the individual. I rather prefer the free thinker.

  • @KipArmadillo
    @KipArmadillo 3 роки тому +243

    When people ask, "If you could have dinner with three people, living or dead, who would they be?" Carl Sagan always has a seat at my table.

    • @argustuft2394
      @argustuft2394 3 роки тому +2

      Carl Sagan, Stephen Fry and Winston Churchill for me.

    • @arijitmitra8818
      @arijitmitra8818 3 роки тому +2

      Sagan, Buddha and Russell for me.

    • @arijitmitra8818
      @arijitmitra8818 3 роки тому +1

      @@stevelind393 if I could call only one Greek, it would be Seneca.

    • @longjohn526
      @longjohn526 3 роки тому +4

      Carl Sagan, Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson .... My mind would probably be too blown to eat .....

    • @Sleepy_Alligator
      @Sleepy_Alligator 3 роки тому +3

      That's not easy - Carl Sagan, Joseph Campbell, John Lennon.
      I also thought of Richard Feynman, Stephan Hawking, Jacques Cousteau, Jane Goodall, Alan Watts, Terence Mckenna, Carlos Casteneda, Neil Armstrong, Donald Knuth, Dalai Lama... Many more fascinating people.

  • @melindasmale2300
    @melindasmale2300 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for posting

  • @tonibauer2405
    @tonibauer2405 3 роки тому +188

    Man, did he ever nail nearly exactly how things would be in our world at this time. His prescience was genius level and beyond.

    • @Dyrnwyn
      @Dyrnwyn 3 роки тому +5

      All you have to do to be so "prescient" is to read history.

    • @youtubesuresuckscock
      @youtubesuresuckscock 3 роки тому +6

      @@Dyrnwyn You don't even have to do that.
      If you basically cynically assume that people will do the easiest, cheapest, and laziest thing, you're going to be right 9 times out of 10.

    • @paulkusinitz1861
      @paulkusinitz1861 3 роки тому +2

      @@youtubesuresuckscock That seems like it would have to be true, once you are able to reach so many people so cheaply. "The lowest COMMON denominator" is what will get the most hits. Therefore is is purposely spread more ( to carry along the message from the commercial sponsor) , and infects more brains.

    • @stylis666
      @stylis666 3 роки тому +2

      @@Dyrnwyn Or live in the 80's and 90's and see it happen. It's not that Sagan was so smart, but that the people in general are dense blind morons.

    • @milopepper2559
      @milopepper2559 3 роки тому +5

      But not nearly as well is what Nietzsche predicted would happen when humanity declared God is dead.

  • @Buran288gto
    @Buran288gto 3 роки тому +158

    “when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues;”

    • @stylis666
      @stylis666 3 роки тому +10

      Yep, in the meanwhile, critical thinking isn't taught in schools, how to deal with media and distinguish between fact and fiction and how to check sources is barely taught in some schools in some countries, and English is finally taught to younger children, when in the 80's it was clear that this was an absolute necessity if we didn't want to find ourselves in a digital idiocracy with digitally handicapped idiots trying to lead a country in an era they know nothing about. We're only 40 years behind. Our leaders should have been brought up with all of that, yet they can't even formulate an argument without stacking a billion fallacies in a sentence and leaving out all the facts.

    • @wthomas7955
      @wthomas7955 3 роки тому +2

      Wait till AI surpasses human level intelligence. Humans won't stand a chance.

    • @danielmatuska795
      @danielmatuska795 3 роки тому +7

      @@stylis666 Excellent point, our schools teach the English language as grammar, it should be vocabulary, etymology, the use and misuse of language, rhetoric as a skill. Our thought processes are shaped by our language ability.

    • @peterparker9286
      @peterparker9286 3 роки тому

      Yes it is the " FORCE " is there it is all around us we just cant see in that spectrum. The Eye sees ALL

    • @jathebest2835
      @jathebest2835 3 роки тому +1

      @@wthomas7955 Well..Automation and AI are used in so many sectors like manufacturing plants.. That's why more and more people go jobless.. Losing a chance to stand..it is already happening now..

  • @Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod
    @Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod 3 роки тому +324

    Carl Sagan, A Brilliant man. 👍🏽😊

    • @LifesLessons100
      @LifesLessons100 3 роки тому +7

      @@jeandukate1799 so where did he get his information from? If you cant answer that then youre the parrot, repeating what the next dumb down doubter said.. 🤔

    • @Weltall8000
      @Weltall8000 3 роки тому +8

      @@jeandukate1799 You have no idea who Carl Sagan was, do you?

    • @billybarnes1763
      @billybarnes1763 3 роки тому

      @@LifesLessons100 😂😂😂 he just told you in his post so you go and ask again??😂😂😂

    • @LifesLessons100
      @LifesLessons100 3 роки тому +2

      @@billybarnes1763 sure do and i'll ask again if i didnt see or hear it.. Thank you! 😭 that's what people do when they want to know. Welcome to earth ❤

    • @seymourbutts9085
      @seymourbutts9085 3 роки тому +3

      @@jeandukate1799 Thinking for themselves ? So people who read the bible and then quote it over and over again are fools ?

  • @michaelisaacson9735
    @michaelisaacson9735 Рік тому +1

    Carl sounds like Kermit the Frog's father.