The largest threat to our Democratic Republic today is the muzzling of free speech.
This combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean who is running the science & technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it.
And the second reason I'm worried about this is that science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human infallibility. if we are not able to ask skeptical questions... To be skeptical of those in authority then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious who comes ambling along.
Carl Sagan's sage advice (25 years ago).
I was the Production Director. I edited (spliced with a razor blade and tape) reel to reel audio tape and made magic, (commercials and contest promos). To maintain my energy I brought a gallon of orange juice into the studio every day and it was gone five hours later when my show was over. Funny, I don't recall ever getting the Flu when I was there.. 🙄😎
The reason there's only the parts where I talk and not the whole song is because the boss, (the Program Director) required us to record 'skimmer tapes' that only run when our mic is open, so he could yell at us for anything he thought was wrong. LOL
