[ecronant]

If Sagan put out Cosmos tomorrow for the first time it would be branded trash and misinformation by a dangerous, idiot inquisitor style, media landscape doing everything it can to not go broke.

A hypothesis about aliens is just a slow pitch, right over the plate for the inquisitors to smash.

The inquisitors are hell bent on making sure young people understand that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.