Dr. Lucky Tran Nov 9, 2024
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
Show threadstarkraving666Nov 9, 2024

@luckytran I was with him until the second half where he arrived at the "dumbing down" conclusion, which itself is such a tired, facile take that ignores all of the material conditions he just identified. Swing and a miss.

Still appreciate the post though

Show threadmadopalNov 10, 2024
@starkraving666 @luckytran Which is also an interesting point that he lamented Beavis & Butthead, written & created by the same man who did Idiocracy, which illustrated the same point he mistakenly attributed to that show.
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@madopal @starkraving666 @luckytran See my comment in this thread. Beavis and ButtHead can be brilliantly written satire and it does take intelligence to write and understand what the real point is, very true also of Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, Silicon Valley, and so on. An early cartoon before the series makes reference to the Roman God of feces, Sterculius, in an extremely gross but hilarious manner, for example.
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