Carl Sagan predicting our current "Celebration of Ignorance"

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9. The stultification of USA and UK has been going full force since

Raygun and Thatcher along with the finacialization of the economy. Sartre talked about it in 1968 or 9 in l’esprit, etc. even Mexican cab drivers know what neoliberalism means along with laissez-faire capitalism. In the U$A capitalism good, communism socialism bad. Yesterday a budding nurse was telling me how even though our healthcare delivery system sucks but we need the capital competitiveness to innovate, I explained European countries and Cuban do very well with development and that much of our pharmaceutical research is done by the NIH paid for by taxpayers and exploited by guess who? Many new treatment developments come from overseas, we are lagging in r&d.