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Hail Sagan "when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few [...] when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline [..] we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness"

openculture.comCarl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995)Image by Kenneth Zirkel, via Wikimedia Commons There have been many theories of how human history works. Some, like German thinker G.W.F.

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