Becky Dillon – What is true or false
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No one knows
what is true or false any longer,
and worse yet – no one cares.
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Rc – Carl Sagan – The Demon-Haunted World – ### – Ignorance
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1995
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I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or my grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest […]
Google it – Check Snopes
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Google it.
Check Snopes.
Look in an encyclopedia.
Ask a librarian.
Ask an expert in that field. […]
El Mago de Oz sigue ahí mismo
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El Mago de Oz sigue ahí mismo,
repartiendo medallas al valor,
relojes con marcapasos
y diplomas a la ignorancia…
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Rc – Asimov – My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
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There is a cult of ignorance
in the United States,
and there always has been. […]
Carl Sagan – One of his final interviews
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This combustible mixture
of ignorance and power
sooner or later
is gonna blow up in our faces. […]
Rc – Jcp – Wizard of Oz – Scarecrow – Diploma
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Tin Man and Lion
And Scarecrow’s brain?
Wizard
Why, anybody can have a brain.
That’s a very mediocre commodity. […]
A – ¿Es peor la ignorancia o la indiferencia?
Cuando se les pregunta si es peor
la ignorancia o la indiferencia,
muchos ciudadanos
responden sin dudarlo un segundo:
“Ni lo sé, ni me importa”.
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Rc – Wizard of Oz – Scarecrow – Brain – Diploma
Wizard of Oz:
Why, anybody can have a brain.
That’s a very mediocre commodity.
Every pusillanimous creature
that crawls on the Earth or
slinks through slimy seas
has a brain. […]
Rc – Demócrito – Saberlo todo
No quieras saberlo todo,
no sea que te vuelvas
ignorante de todo.
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