Cosmos - Carl Sagan -complete Edition- -
In the Complete Edition , Sagan revisits Plato’s allegory of the cave. Chained prisoners see only shadows on a wall, believing that to be the whole of reality. One prisoner escapes, sees the sun, and returns to tell the others. They mock him. They kill him.
As Carl said, and as the Complete Edition echoes into the silence: “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” Cosmos - Carl Sagan -Complete Edition-
The Complete Edition is not merely an updated textbook. It is a moral treatise. Sagan, with his trademark turtleneck and twinkling eyes, asks the forbidden question: Given our insignificance, what is our obligation? In the Complete Edition , Sagan revisits Plato’s
