The Prophet Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was wrong about his cosmology as physicist/cosmologist Max Tegmark and many others of equal honesty and credentials can now prove to him, that indeed earth does occupy a very special, even privileged place in the Universe.  In fact the actual physical observations of the Cosmos, available and empowered by man's massive advancement in Technology, destroys every pillar and ground upon which Carl Sagan's cosmology was based.  Yet, as a wise man he was right about some other things, and formed his wrong opinions on things that were called "settled" that were rather indeed "speculative."  He was right in understanding that the earth is a tiny blue dot in a universe of things, but he did not fully grasp the reality of infinity into greatness and infinity into the small, that tiny blue dot of life on the Master's Sanctuary Wall.  He was also right in his understanding of the fallen nature of man and man's lack of appreciation for the planet he occupies, and right in understanding that American's were being purposely Dumbed Down, sinking into ignorance, tempted to superstition and emotion over reason and knowledge. And he was right also that the powerful technologies already developed in the hands of a few hold the potential for a techno-Dark Age unimaginable and very cruel.




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Carl Sagan
“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 critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...


"The dumbing down of American 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, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Were Carl Sagan alive today, I believe he would probably hate Donald Trump out of mere cultural bias as so many non-insane Liberals do, but he would live in utter grinding fear of Google, Facebook and other's Artificial Intelligence programs and experiments.  He would look at fundamentalist Christians and Judiazed Christians who are looking for the next "Blood Moon" and raping Sacred Scripture Passages bend them to conform to current headlines and future fears as absolute proof that in this instance he was a freak'n PROPHET.