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A review by itshaldun
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
slow-paced
2.0
Majority of it was kind of a snore fest. It’s a nice exploration and explanation of the scientific method, but for me it seemed pretty elementary at this point in my life. I think book was more aimed at a general public from 30 years ago, where concepts of this book would be quite rare to find in a single source.
The book has a lot of debunking of paranormal activities, especially UFOs, so if you believe those but don’t want to, it’s a good book. I don’t, so I lost interest in the explanations pretty fast.
The best parts of the book were definitely about the politics of discrimination and education. You can see how the problems Carl Sagan was concerned with back then are the exact problems we are having now, namely, suppression of minorities through purposefully failed and rigged education system, racial and gender stereotyping, taking rights from people through manufactured “wars” (for example, against drugs or against wokeness), tolerance paradox and the like. It was kind of harrowing to read considering the current rise of Fascism across Western nations.
Love Carl Sagan though. OG popular science guy with actual scientific achievements to support his position, and his ego in check (Looking at you Neil)
The book has a lot of debunking of paranormal activities, especially UFOs, so if you believe those but don’t want to, it’s a good book. I don’t, so I lost interest in the explanations pretty fast.
The best parts of the book were definitely about the politics of discrimination and education. You can see how the problems Carl Sagan was concerned with back then are the exact problems we are having now, namely, suppression of minorities through purposefully failed and rigged education system, racial and gender stereotyping, taking rights from people through manufactured “wars” (for example, against drugs or against wokeness), tolerance paradox and the like. It was kind of harrowing to read considering the current rise of Fascism across Western nations.
Love Carl Sagan though. OG popular science guy with actual scientific achievements to support his position, and his ego in check (Looking at you Neil)