Carl Sagan once said:
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." —Carl Sagan
I confess I re-blogged this quote without knowing its original context, so I have to guess Sagan's point was to push for a lot more science education.
That's a good idea. However, if/when it "blows up in our faces" (economically, environmentally, politically) it will be too late. So we also need a contingency plan to teach and empower people to survive, even thrive, with minimal technology off the grid.
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Carl Sagan was wrong on many things. He would be the last person I would hitch my red wagon to... Happy New Year in any event.
The most effective deception or hard-to-find errors are ones that most resemble (or contain the most), truth. So we should affirm the good and true in other's positions before we try to help them think a bit more critically about a few discrepancies, then (some) people will be more receptive. Give the devil his due. Then kick his ass. I am currently restructuring my websites, blogs twitter and Facebook accounts for various audiences, and then I'll deactivate this blog and re-launch with more focus on development and there'll be a new blog for apologetics, a different one for spiritual growth , a different one for politics/economics etc.
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