An
amazing experience
Today, I finished Carl Sagan’s book The demon-haunted world and consequently,
the word which comes to my mind is saudade,
truly I am going to miss his book and all the truth it brought into my life.
During the reading I got myself wondering, how would
react other people from different profession all around the world while reading
his texts? He was an astronomer, but like me, he was a teacher too. Thus, I
read his book with teacher’s eyes and as a teacher I felt very glad when I saw how
human a man could be even though, he is clearly an atheist. His love for
humanity was one of the most beautiful and courageous attitude I have seen in
years. I am fond of his love for people and his genuine faith in science as a
tool, better say, a way to liberty, to comprehension, to life itself.
He spreads the necessity of searching, studying,
learning and doubting. He asks in his book for skepticism. He defends the
critical and skeptical search on behalf of science but beyond this, on behalf of
humanity. His text is so inclusive, so abundant that I cannot find space here
to run about all I learnt. He defends the rights of people over ethnical
origins, sexual orientation or religious orientation, in his text you can find
a critical analyzes about the danger of being so skeptical and think of being in
the right position because your life is based on the proves you can see by
scientific experiments. He points the necessity
of having an open mind, but still considering people believes as humans and individuals.
He accuses the media of being a tool of stereotypes which is bad used and tendentious.
He makes a serious
discussion on religions and UFOs, he runs over the problems of being so
credulous. He relates religion and UFOs, and how humanity is misplacing their mysticism
into another beliefs. Carl Sagan was worried about the future and the scientific
analphabetism of the USA, but if one takes a better look on it, it is possible to
see that this problem is found all around the globe. The scholar methods are boring,
and they don’t dig slightly the surface of real science. Actually, the public system
does not supply or fund students’ needs or teachers’ lessons plans. It is a
reality and a sad true that his book in 2018 is still so current.
I am amazed of doing this so rich and enterteining reading. Thanks, Carl Sagan for this beautiful sample of humanity.
