Comments on: Thoughts on the Anniversary of Carl Sagan’s Death, part 3 http://mark.madsenlab.org/2008/12/thoughts-on-the-anniversary-of-carl-sagans-death-part-3.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:35:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Stephen Ryan http://mark.madsenlab.org/2008/12/thoughts-on-the-anniversary-of-carl-sagans-death-part-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-1636 Stephen Ryan Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://mark.madsenlab.org/?p=504#comment-1636 Cosmos helped marshall my young mind from the dogma of my small, religious (though well-intended) New England upbringing. Sagan did not fight or preach, just shared his enthusiasm and wonder. He got me thinking, and made me unafraid of possibilities I hadn't yet considered. How many dominoes has he set in motion? Amazingly he'd become as much a spiritual leader as a scientific one in my life. Now, onto the political changes. Obama's organization looks more like a pre-emptive multi-tasking machine; as opposed to one rough riding cowboy and 1000s of people on spin control. With competence, direction and unchecked intelligence in the system many parts will function quite well without the executive's hand on the rudder. So for this reason I also have a certain amount of hope right now. Like the feeling I get when I view sprouts breaking through a landscape devastated by forest fire. A competent administration could un-do at great speed. Parallel processing governance is on the horizon. Cosmos helped marshall my young mind from the dogma of my small, religious (though well-intended) New England upbringing. Sagan did not fight or preach, just shared his enthusiasm and wonder. He got me thinking, and made me unafraid of possibilities I hadn’t yet considered. How many dominoes has he set in motion? Amazingly he’d become as much a spiritual leader as a scientific one in my life.

Now, onto the political changes. Obama’s organization looks more like a pre-emptive multi-tasking machine; as opposed to one rough riding cowboy and 1000s of people on spin control. With competence, direction and unchecked intelligence in the system many parts will function quite well without the executive’s hand on the rudder. So for this reason I also have a certain amount of hope right now. Like the feeling I get when I view sprouts breaking through a landscape devastated by forest fire. A competent administration could un-do at great speed. Parallel processing governance is on the horizon.

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