Carl Sagan had very wise words about this. Well worth reading.
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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition openculture.com/2025/02/carl-s…Carl 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.OC (Openculture.com)
