Posted: 19 November 2019 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | 3
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"Family Guy" I never really got, it seems to me as a TV show the characters of "Idiocracy" would watch and laugh while drinking their Brawndos.
"Beavis & Butt-Head" on the other hand, always had a secret intelligence behind its apparent stupidity. But you had to put some time and effort to get the joke, it's very subtle satire. Everything Mike Judge did afterwards including "Silicon Valley" now, proves he's super smart and he understands perfectly the times we live in.
Back to the Sagan page, I've never read the book (need to remedy this pronto) but that paragraph has fascinated me for years and it keeps getting new meanings as time goes by.
"Awesome technological powers are in the hands of the very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues"
Tell me that doesn't exactly describe the recent Facebook hearings in congress. Zuckerberg was 10 years old when Sagan wrote that!
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