Carl Sagan Points a Chilling Warning In regards to the Decline of Scientific Considering in America: Watch His Remaining Interview (1996)

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Till the top of his life, Carl Sagan (1934–1996) con­tin­ued doing what he did all alongside — pop­u­lar­iz­ing sci­ence and “enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly con­vey­ing the received­ders of the uni­verse to mil­lions of peo­ple on tele­vi­sion and in books.” When­ev­er Sagan appeared on The Tonight Present with John­ny Automotive­son dur­ing the 70s and 80s, his aim was to…

Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “With out Noticing, Again into Superstition & Darkness” (1995)

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Picture by Ken­neth Zirkel, by way of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons There have been many the­o­ries of how human his­to­ry works. Some, like Ger­man thinker G.W.F. Hegel, have considered progress as inevitable. Oth­ers have embraced a extra sta­t­ic view, filled with “Nice Males” and an immutable nat­ur­al order. Then we have now the counter-Enlight­en­ment thinker Giambat­tista Vico. The 18th…