https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/04216b4e-c9d1-4327-a379-4350b8c50466 Segment from MSNBC's "The 11th Hour" with Brian Williams, aired July 12, 2021. Williams discusses Carl Sagan's 1996 book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark," published just months before Sagan's death, in which Sagan made eerily accurate predictions about the challenges the US would face 25 years later. Among Sagan's warnings: "The dumbing down of America 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, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." Source: MSNBC - The 11th Hour with Brian Williams https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/carl-sagan-predicted-the-mess-2021-would-be-25-years-ago-116670533808 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:21:13 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/04216b4e-c9d1-4327-a379-4350b8c50466 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.