1984: Thread

[grarpamp]

“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