And they will slowly drain the world of all that is good just for profit.

I read this quote and wanted to become depressed because it resonated with me, deep in my psyche. However, I can only vote against trump, try to recycle in a town that doesn't, drink my wine and feed my musical soul with some Mendelssohn in order to stay balanced. Speaking of wine, I think I have a bottle around here . . . . . . . .

Yep, that's quite a prediction. It's getting harder and harder to tell truth from fiction anymore, no matter how hard we try to be skeptical and think critically, we may end up believing some non-sense simply because we are being tricked into it somehow.

Are society seems to be happily marching in that direction. At least some of us are going against the stream.

He hit that almost like a prophet. We are in that time today for sure. I recall reading this Sagan book when it came out and I was amazed and thrilled. It was marvelous.

We're sliding so fast now, it's like we've all been greased !

"The Demon Haunted World" should be required reading in high school.

Hey guys, look over there: Tesla came out with a new driverless car!
Psst, sisters. The revolution starts at `dawn

Wow! Utter despair, Mr Sagan. The thing is all of that will change as Global Warming starts to wreak havoc everywhere.
But I did enjoy "Contact".

The enemy has always been among us. Our primary responsibility is to make sure they don't take over and run our nation into the dirt.

Loved Carl Satan and his 'The Demon Haunted World'. Wish he were still with us. But OTOH, where we find ourselves as a country today may well have driven him mad.
P.S. His book 'The Dragons of Eden' was also excellent

For about $5.00 which included shipping I got a used paperback edition off Amazon about 6 months ago.

I like it.

Carl Sagan was probably the most influential writer leading me out of religion all those years ago. I read all his books and "The Demon-Haunted World" twice. I snagged an audio a couple of years ago and listed to it so, three times and it was still profound.

I've been listening to YouTube videos about John Dewey and his influence on education. The good thing about him was he envisioned a school as a co-operative between teachers and students where the formation of the student as a fully formed adult was the goal. This was to be done through the medium of the students' own aptitudes, be they academic of vocational. The gist of it seems to be that Dewey's teachings were taken on board by the education systems in America and abroad but the goal of forming the individual was lost and education became more the collection of data in memory to regurgitate during the exams.

Amazing prediction. Have not read that book.

For those that seek "The Truth", this is one of them!!

Imagination, intelligence, fear, and forecasting. What an amazing mind.

Sound reason

It seems that the successful politician is one that tells the lies that the public wants to hear. (Aaah global warming isn't real.)

I have gone through two hard copies of that book, and I've had an electronic version ever since I got my first smart phone.

Prophetic....right on...

I read this years ago, and have often cited its chapter 2, which, if memory serves me properly, focused on the idea of defining, and seeking, evidence for beliefs.

This is why I think people re selfish for wanting to have children. Why should anyone be created only to experience our nonsense then be expected to sort it out.

Heidegger was right about ‘thrownness’