text: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, 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...
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  The dumbing down of America , lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
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  Carl Sagan 
  1995
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  Naturopaths,  jade eggs, cold-pressed juices , freeze-dried placenta tablets, homeopaths, chiropractors, anti vaccination agitators and  Gwyneth Paltrow and her leeches ....
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  prescient non?