The famous astrophysicist, writer and host of the Cosmos series, Carl Sagan, made a grim prediction for the society. Unfortunately, this panorama seems to be fully fulfilled…
There is no doubt that Carl Sagan was the popularizer of science who crossed borders and reached all the inhabitants of the planetScience buffs or not.
In 1995 he published his book “The World Haunted by Demons: Science as a Candle in the Darkwhere he boarded spiritual concepts and pseudoscience. What was most striking, however, was the future of American society that he predicted, which is replicate worldwidethat’s not very encouraging…
The mysterious prediction of Carl Sagan
27 years have passed since his publicationbut one of his quotes continues to elicit disturbing reactions In the whole world.
Carl Sagan wrote The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark in 1995. Credit: NASA/Wikimedia Commons,
Currently, the passage has been gone viral again on social networks, causing a new wave of excitement by verifying that it is coming true…
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it’s a way of thinking. I have the feeling of a America in the time of my children or grandchildren, when the United States is a service and information economy; while almost all major manufacturing industries went to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a few, and no one who represents the public interest can even understand the issues; when people lost the ability to set their own agendas or ask knowingly those with authority; when, clinging to our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our declining critical facultiesunable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true, we slip, almost without realizing it, back into the superstition and darkness“.
Although Sagan is used to projecting optimism, the quote tells a dystopian societyvery divided where there is confusion, distrust of authority and an ever greater gap between increasingly authoritarian leaders and the rest of society.
The decline of society
Excerpt from the 1984 dystopian film, Credit: El País.
In the quote, Carl Sagan refers to American cultural phenomena already seen around the world. Examples of them were the series Beavis and Butthead and the movie Stupid and even dumber2 of the most watched audiovisual works of the time, which he describes as “amazing tools”.
The appearance of tycoons like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, who have practically the fate of humanity by dominating the greatest technological powers.
In addition to this, authorities around the world are involved in issues related to with power and economy and don’t pay attention to the problems that if they affect humanity. Reach a point where no one else could creating environmental policies to prevent the accelerated degeneration of the planet.
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist and astrobiologist.
Coincidentally, Sagan died just a year after the publication of his book. Although it was always a optimistic personSeeing the best in any situation, he sometimes expressed genuine concern for the future of mankind.
Without a doubt, Carl Sagan was a visionary in every way, including the possible dark future that is like a constant cloud above us.
References: The Nation / DW.
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