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Bibliographic information

author

Carl Sagan

title (en)

: The demon-haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark

Bibliographic information (1995 hardcover)

edition number

1

publication date

1995

medium

hardcover

page count

: 457

publisher

Random House

printed in

United States

ISBN

0-394-53512-X

Prototype notes

Carl Sagan was lucky to land the best professors -> Demon Haunted World. I find it pretty funny I cite this book for Careerism more than for secular philosophy against religion

Motifs

Carl Sagan's professors / "I learned planetary astronomy from its only full-time practitioner at the time, G.P. Kuiper" -> this is the problem. you obtained a highly expensive rank good that is genuinely difficult to get and you're under the illusion everyone can just choose to get it.
wonder versus skepticism / the two elements of science, skepticism and wonder -> this is blatantly missing the third element of ontology.
United States people are scientifically illiterate because they didn't choose to become smart -> if he'd only taken this lack of education as a material reality instead of a botched Ideal he'd come to understand Marxism better.
Religions are not the only fortress for protecting pseudoscience -> that's fair.
magic ritual
Trotsky and scientific thinking
The dissolved Soviet Russia is the real Russia / Communists ruined science because they only handed science to experts, but the dissolved Soviet Union is the real Soviet Union and the country didn't build itself up through every single individual being thoroughly educated and improved individually -> this is like saying that the United States immediately after dissolving the central government and all the state governments and ripping up the constitution is the real United States. it's very anarchist in a weird way except that if you did the thing it would make everybody fight each other over the same rank goods and businesses and ability to make decisions for other people and create so-called "hierarchies".
hermetically-sealed compartments of knowledge
meme model of fringe science / "Darwinian natural selection of doctrines" -> here this is used more neutrally without any connection to people-groups and cultures; meme theory has turned into an assembly theory. but it still seems very doubtful.
Magic ritual is not distinguishable from religion -> I subjectively prefer this framing, but it should be noted this is not the way it's done in progressive anthropology, where the two things are separated.
scientific method versus applied field
the wonder of the universe
Magic ritual is not distinguishable from religion -> I subjectively prefer this framing, but it should be noted this is not the way it's done in progressive anthropology, where the two things are separated.
invisible garage dragon

Motifs (subjective)

Atheist science communicators are social-science illiterate / You can't understand science illiteracy without a serious science of sociality, social groups, and culture

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 </li><li {{IS1/IV/class}} value="618" data-pages="16-17">Trotsky and scientific thinking
 </li><li {{IS2/A/class}}  value="618" data-pages="17">The dissolved Soviet Russia is the real Russia / Communists ruined science because they only handed science to experts, but the dissolved Soviet Union is the real Soviet Union and the country didn't build itself up through every single individual being thoroughly educated and improved individually  ->  this is like saying that the United States immediately after dissolving the central government and all the state governments and ripping up the constitution is the real United States. it's very anarchist in a weird way except that if you did the thing it would make everybody fight each other over the same rank goods and businesses and ability to make decisions for other people and create so-called "hierarchies".
-</li><li {{IS1/ES/class}} value="618" data-pages="17">hermetically-sealed compartments of knowledge
+</li><li {{IS1/IV/class}} value="3984" data-pages="17">hermetically-sealed compartments of knowledge
 </li><li {{IS1/ES/class}} value="618" data-pages="19">meme model of fringe science / "Darwinian natural selection of doctrines"  ->  here this is used more neutrally without any connection to people-groups and cultures; meme theory has turned into an assembly theory. but it still seems very doubtful.
 </li><li {{IS2/ES/class}} value="618" data-pages="19">Magic ritual is not distinguishable from religion  ->  I subjectively prefer this framing, but it should be noted this is not the way it's done in progressive anthropology, where the two things are separated.