Beheaded James Foley and " Demon Haunted World "

     I cannot imagine a headline like this at the height of the Cold War : " Did British Jehadist behead journalist James Foley ?  " .  For all its evils the old Soviet Union offered third world youth a rational explanation for social injustice. Marxist ideology was the best that a scientific sociology could offer the desperate masses.

            Not for nothing Carl Sagan 's " Demon Haunted World "  was written after the collapse of the Soviet Union .  Without  scientific literacy- this candle in the darkness - the  masses soon sink back  into Dark Age ignorance, superstition, and barbarism. Another Great Plague will take us all the way back intellectually to the 14th  Century.  

       Do you  conservative types at the Providence Journal think the masses can be won over to Ayn Rand's cruel atheism and "  The Virtue of Selfishness "  ?

          Even the revolutionary optimist Leon Trotsky noted this about the world's  oppressed masses in his " Diary in Exile "  :  " what reserves they possess of darkness "  .