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Carl Sagan -
“I have a foreboding of an America when awesome tech 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, 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..."
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/252618-the-demon-haunted-world2/n
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