Grew up watching Sagan on PBS. After church let out. Isn’t that strange?
I have a deep-seated idea that dad (granddad really), went to church for social reasons, wasn’t a believer, but wanted his son to rise about religious thought. Some of dad’s dying, intimate thoughts, which my granduncle shared made me wonder. (I’m rather loose with my pronouns and family. Did that make sense?)
Anyway, dad encouraged me to learn about science and nature. Bought me a VIC-20, years of Ranger Rick subscriptions, and sent me to computer camp for two summers. Now I’m an atheist in my 50s and have an IT career. Go figure.
I’d kill to watch NOVA with him again.
The Deep Nonsense is winning the war
We known since our very inception that balanced takes are the most healthy and efficient path forward from Aristotels Golden Mean to Taoist’s balance in all things and this awesome quote by Carl Sagan here as well.
Yet here we are, in a time where it should be the easiest option we have all sort of idiots from alt right to tankies. The fact that these people have such strong voices is simply degeneration no matter how you look at it.
