“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time... 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... our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true... 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 down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming... especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” -- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshJn7lgVsY