Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “With out Noticing, Again into Superstition & Darkness” (1995)
Picture by Kenneth Zirkel, by way of Wikimedia Commons There have been many theories of how human history works. Some, like German thinker G.W.F. Hegel, have considered progress as inevitable. Others have embraced a extra static view, filled with “Nice Males” and an immutable natural order. Then we have now the counter-Enlightenment thinker Giambattista Vico. The 18th…