Mrs. Darth Vader
06-21-2010, 22:11
Chapter twenty one is a quick over view of the entire book. Sagan gives a quick fast paced panorama of what you just finished reading. This is the last chapter of the book. Sagan then has a one paragraph Epilogue after this chapter in closing. To this Sagan adds an appeal that humans have evolved brains and we should use our intellect to over come short comings in our evolution. He warns us against becoming break away republics of small groups or city statism. Sagan appeals to the idea of cooperation and working together as a species to ensure a future.
Sagan reminds you like he did in the introduction that he only promises the facts as discovered by science. No great elixirs or golden parachutes. To say it in the language of “The Matrix”, Sagan offers the “red” pill of truth. If you wish to take the blue pill of delusion, than do not read this book and stay in your delusion. “Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors” by Carl Sagan only promises a square look at us and who we are. This attitude is clearly brought out at the end as well as at the very beginning of this book.
Sagan reminds us that we have the power to extinguish ourselves and many other species and destroy all life on earth. Here Sagan reminds us of the choices we have before us. We could cooperate with one another and change the way we do things on earth thus saving ourselves and our grandchildren and the many species that share the earth with us. Or we can continue in our short sighted greedy individualistic ways and destroy ourselves and the many species with us and possibly all life on earth. Sagan here plays the role of Ten Bears offering “Words of life or words of death”.
Sagan reminds you like he did in the introduction that he only promises the facts as discovered by science. No great elixirs or golden parachutes. To say it in the language of “The Matrix”, Sagan offers the “red” pill of truth. If you wish to take the blue pill of delusion, than do not read this book and stay in your delusion. “Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors” by Carl Sagan only promises a square look at us and who we are. This attitude is clearly brought out at the end as well as at the very beginning of this book.
Sagan reminds us that we have the power to extinguish ourselves and many other species and destroy all life on earth. Here Sagan reminds us of the choices we have before us. We could cooperate with one another and change the way we do things on earth thus saving ourselves and our grandchildren and the many species that share the earth with us. Or we can continue in our short sighted greedy individualistic ways and destroy ourselves and the many species with us and possibly all life on earth. Sagan here plays the role of Ten Bears offering “Words of life or words of death”.