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    T h e F i d o G a z e t t e Volume 15 Number 13 September 22nd, 2021
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    Table Of Contents



    Quote of the Day ........................2
    EchoMail Statistics .................... 3
    This week's FileGate File Report ....... 4
    Fidonet SoftWare List ................. 5
    FidoGazette BBS List .................. 6
    More Information ....................... 7


    FIDOGAZETTE Vol 15 No 13 September 22nd, 2021



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    Quote of the Day
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    "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
    awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very
    few, and no one representing the public interest can even
    grasp the issues; 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 crital faculties in decline,
    unable to distiguish between what feels good and what's
    true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into
    superstition and darkness. 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"
    ~Carl Sagan, 1995


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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.2 to Janis Kracht on Mon Sep 27 08:20:40 2021
    T h e F i d o G a z e t t e Volume 15 Number 13 September 22nd,
    2021

    [...]

    ...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"
    ~Carl Sagan, 1995

    " And yet he felt repelled by the teaching machines. For the entire Public School was geared to a task which went contrary to his grain: the school was there not to inform or educate, but to mold, and along severely limited lines. It was the link to their inherited culture, and it peddled that culture, in its entirety, to the young. It bent its pupils to it; perpetuation of the culture was the goal, and any special quirks in the children which might lead them in another direction had to be ironed out.

    " It was a battle, Jack realized, between the composite psyche of the school and the individual psyches of the children, and the former held all the key cards. A child who did not properly respond was assumed to be autistic--that is, oriented according to a subjective factor that took precedence over his sense of objective reality. And that child wound up by being expelled from the school; he went, after that, to another sort of school entirely, one designed to rehabilitate him: he went to Camp Ben-Gurion. He could not be taught; he could only be dealt with as ill.

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