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“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”Carl Sagan
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
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mespilus
It's one of the scary things in our post Brexit world. It's now taboo to call a racist, racist.
Can't believe how far right this county has lurched in such a relatively short time.