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A lot of people think he's become a bit of a wanker on social media and IRL. Some of his tweets are cringe and makes him doing like he's lightyears up his own ass.
I was one of them until I realized that in grand scheme of things, he is net positive. So I don’t care if he is cringe, I learn quite a bit from him and I wish more influential people were smart like him.
Fair enough. Maybe I just miss Carl too much
That's always understandable. I think the bigger picture here is that we sometimes forget that they're all humans, not just public figures. They have other thoughts and opinions that aren't curated for the world.
Plus, Sagan's era didn't have Internet. People weren't sharing with the world every single fucking thought that came out of their head. I'm sure we would've heard Sagan say some dumb shit here and there if he had to produce today's world's kind of content.
Great!
Now consider why the "public" started turning on him in 2021 or so.
Sometimes I think he forgets he's there to be the science guy and makes it about himself a lot, but when he gets on a science rant that's when hea good, just going on about his love of science and why it's cool as fuck.
Getting James Cameron to fix the stars in the Titanic remake boosted his ego a little bit, but I get that, I'd be a bit ego filled if I was able to make James Cameron change something in his film.
I don't use twitter (never have tbh) so I've only ever seen screenshots of his more infamous tweets, but I have listened to a LOT of his startalk podcast. Most of the time he's an entertaining person and seems to admit when he doesn't know enough about a given subject (although I've seen a lot of criticism that he does tend to talk about things he doesn't know, it doesn't seem to be that way in the podcast at least)
He can be annoying in some of his podcasts though and you can feel his guests being diplomatic about it while still hearing a bit of annoyance in their voice or next sentence etc. But overall I rather quite like him, despite the Internet's disdain for him.
More people making science popular and easily digestible is always a good thing IMO. But I'm also biased because I've really liked NDT since I was a kid due to seeing him in space documentaries when I was young, and I still love his version of Cosmos.