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From: Brian Straight <brians@mdbs.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:59:35 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:37:52 -0400
Subject: Re: High Flying Sagan


 >Source: SIGHTINGS

 >http://www.sightings.com/politics4/fly.htm

 >Carl Sagan Flew Higher Than Scientific Imagination Alone

 >By Keay Davidson


 >"I find that most of the insights I achieve when high are into
 >social issues," he added. "I can remember one occasion, taking a
 >shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the
 >origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian
 >distribution curves. It was a point obvious in a way, but rarely
 >talked about. I drew the curves in soap on the shower wall, and
 >went to write the idea down. One idea led to another, and at the
 >end of about an hour of extremely hard work I found I had
 >written 11 short essays on a wide range of social, political,
 >philosophical, and human biological topics...I have used them in
 >university commencement addresses, public lectures, and in my
 >books....


So that explains it.  There are few writers on social and
political issues who can approach Sagan in the sheer drivel of
his output in this and other areas where his expertise does not
extend, but where, nevertheless, he feels compelled to offer his
opinions.

Brian