Sagan was all about awe and wonder at natural forces in the cosmos. This anti-Sagan is all about bleak joyless sneering at everything for the sake of feeling intellectually superior.
If :my-hero: is :reddit-logo: 's collective fantasies about the future, this anti-Sagan is :reddit-logo: 's collective desire to be too smart to be emotionally moved by anything that isn't officially sanctioned by :reddit-logo: logic and reason.
It's such a shame too, because he had a personal mentor in Sagan, but didn't internalize his humanistic outlook, only the science part. Science without philosophy is mechanistic nihilism, philosophy without science is sophistry.
Science without philosophy is mechanistic nihilism
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(disclaimer: that's what :reddit-logo: "I fucking love science" techbros think they're in to, but they can't even get that right and are just LARPing as Rick Sanchez)
He's like the anti-Sagan.
Sagan was all about awe and wonder at natural forces in the cosmos. This anti-Sagan is all about bleak joyless sneering at everything for the sake of feeling intellectually superior.
If :my-hero: is :reddit-logo: 's collective fantasies about the future, this anti-Sagan is :reddit-logo: 's collective desire to be too smart to be emotionally moved by anything that isn't officially sanctioned by :reddit-logo: logic and reason.
I will forever refer to NDT as the anti-sagan now. Thanks
It's such a shame too, because he had a personal mentor in Sagan, but didn't internalize his humanistic outlook, only the science part. Science without philosophy is mechanistic nihilism, philosophy without science is sophistry.
:reddit-logo:
(disclaimer: that's what :reddit-logo: "I fucking love science" techbros think they're in to, but they can't even get that right and are just LARPing as Rick Sanchez)