Dumbing Down of America

“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now 10 seconds), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
--Carl Sagan

America Foreboding

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
--Carl Sagan

Fool's Brain

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
--George Bernard Shaw

Just In Case

“Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?”
--Judith Viorst