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A Thinking People’s Revolt
Science Uprising Pulls back the Curtain on Pseudo-Scientific Posturing
In the 1980s, Madonna captured the image of one girl’s shallow, self-absorbed life with her pop song, “Material Girl”:
You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl.
The era’s personal materialism of “I like stuff” or “Stuff is all that matters” was also captured in TV teen Alex Keaton of the sitcom Family Ties. Individuals may not be so enamored today of material things, but there’s another kind of collective materialism that holds undue sway in our culture. I’m talking about …
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Alex Keaton, Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin, Discovery Institute, Elin Kelsey, Family Ties, Madonna, Material Girl, materialism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science Uprising, You Are Stardust
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