0:00.0	The sobering reality I think we have to face is that we now live in an empire of lies.
0:10.8	This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show to support the work we do,
0:14.8	get commercial free versions of every episode, and members on the bonus content to visit the
0:18.9	Contributes tab at bestofleft.com. Now welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left podcast with
0:24.3	clips today from Quarks and Quarks from the CBC. This is Hell Radio, a forum with the former Supreme
0:30.8	Court Justice David Souter speaking via PBS NewsHour, Frontline, Ideas from the CBC, and a progressive
0:37.6	faith sermon from Reverend Roger A. Carl Sagan is a revered scientist and former host of the show
0:51.3	Cosmos. In 1995 he published a book called The Demon Haunted World, Science as a candle in the dark.
0:59.1	About a year after the book was released, Sagan died. This week a few lines from that book went viral.
1:05.7	They seemed to perfectly capture the world we are living in. We ask Carl Sagan's son Nick Sagan
1:11.6	to read that passage for us. And while Sagan's vision of the future wasn't exactly cheerful,
1:17.5	Nick holds on to his father's optimism and urges us all to do the same.
1:22.7	Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking.
1:26.7	I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time
1:30.4	with the United States as a service and information economy,
1:33.6	when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries.
1:37.9	When awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few,
1:41.5	and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.
1:45.0	When the people have lost the ability to set their own agenda,
1:47.4	there are now a lot of requests in those in authority.
1:50.1	When clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes,
1:54.0	our critical faculties into cline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true,
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