“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth.” - Sagan
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth.” - Sagan
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995
A side effect of this is also what Orson Welles calls a shut eye: https://youtu.be/3Poac0eciM0
Where the charlatan believes in their own gimmick.
So basically if you're a fraudster, believing in yourself is an occupational hazard
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He was a great scientist and a great communicator, but also a dick.
Late-1993, renowned astronomer Carl Sagan learnt that Apple’s forthcoming computer, the Power Macintosh 7100, had been given a codename of “Carl Sagan” — the joke being that they would sell “billions and billions.” This was mentioned in a MacWEEK article some time later, to which Sagan sent the following letter in response.
"I was profoundly distressed to see your lead front-page story "Trio of Power PC Macs spring toward March release date" proclaiming Apple's announcement of a new Mac bearing my name. That this was done without my authorization or knowledge is especially disturbing." Sagan wrote to MacWEEK on January 10, 1994.
Apple soon changed the codename to “BHA.” Upon learning that it stood for “Butt-Head Astronomer,” Sagan filed a lawsuit for defamation of character, and lost. He then sued Apple again, for the original codename, and lost again. So he appealed. Late-1995, the two parties settled out of court, and Apple apologised for any unintended distress caused by the situation.
The 7100′s final codename was “LAW.” It stood for “Lawyers Are Wimps.”
https://www.iphonesavior.com/2012/03/codename-butt-head-astronomer.html
You think Steve Jobs, egomaniac, is the measure against Carl Sagan. interesting.
"in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe" - Carl Sagan
Apple soon changed the codename to “BHA.”
Sounds like worshipers of Steve Jobs.
Apple cultist are always cringe.
They'll look past all the company's own faults and then point finger and someone else like they have a moral high ground.
You don't know what you're talking about, clearly. Copy / pasta from a diff reply: Steve Jobs wasn’t at Apple when this happened. Sagan sued for an internal codename that was not meant to go public. Steve was a dick. Carl was a dick. People who achieve a lot can be dicks.
But since your comment has me worshiping Jobs (a flawed person, no doubt), why don't you get fucked.
The article you shared appears to be only an excerpt of the one I found here, and I don't really find this to be dick behavior at all in the context of the first paragraph.
I have been approached many times over the past two decades by individuals and corporations seeking to use my name and/or likeness for commercial purposes. I have always declined, no matter how lucrative the offer or how important the corporation. My endorsement is not for sale.
For this reason, I was profoundly distressed to see your lead front-page story "Trio of Power PC Macs spring toward March release date" proclaiming Apple's announcement of a new Mac bearing my name. That this was done without my authorization or knowledge is especially disturbing. Through my attorneys, I have repeatedly requested Apple to make a public clarification that I knew nothing of its intention to capitalize on my reputation in introducing this product, that I derived no benefit, financial or otherwise, from its doing so. Apple has refused. I would appreciate it if you so apprise your readership.
Carl Sagan
Seems to me like Apple could just have published a short statement saying that it was a internal codename only, used without Sagan's knowledge or permission, and that they would change it to something unrelated.
Instead they apparently decided to be little pissbabies about it and rename it to something obviously meant to be insulting to Sagan.
He definitely took it further than I personally think would have been prudent, but in terms of who I think had the moral high ground? Not Apple.
Nobody was good in this.
Solidifying a generations bamboozlement. Times get better. But not for the bamboozled. They blame those that weren’t bamboozled for their bamboozlement. If they’re lucky, their next generation will see through the lies. More than likely not due to indoctrination. Hopefully they turn out like anti nazi Germans. Stomping out any “hails dipshit” they here uttered.