Carl Sagan - A thousand years of darkness

This segment of "Cosmos", presented by Carl Sagan, is a sobering look at the self loathing nature of humanity when it comes to protecting its intellectual treasures. He walks through a simulation of the great library at Alexandria and chronicles the great minds of the ancient world and their works which were stored there only to be later destroyed by the ignorant, superstitious mob. Could our civilization's great ideas be blotted out as were the ideas of the ancient world? Could history repeat itself? Could we descend into an era of intellectual darkness once again? Carl gives an insightful view of the possibilities and their consequences. RR