Forty four years ago, in 1976, the Soviet Union returned a sample of lunar soil. The Chinese just returned another sample from the far side of the moon. America failed in its leadership and mission in those two generations that were lost to an abiding cultural pessimism. As I recall, the battle of the elite establishment against the mission for humanity to enter an unprecedented era of prosperity and achievement was waged on multiple levels from the 1960s onward.
The simple minded and utterly false refrain was that money that was being wasted in space was needed to alleviate poverty here on earth. However, the less obvious, yet just as malign subversion came from the "entertainment industry." This was the new age paradigm shift as it spread its noxious contagion of pessimism throughout the pores of society.
Barring cataclysmic events precipitated by the authors of the geopolitical "Great Reset" and its "Green New Deal" lunacy, humanity is yet again on the precipice of the age of space colonization and reason. All the power that our putative elites have in the end is the destruction of the universal desire in the imagination of the people of this planet to make a future worthy of our undying quest for discovering and conquering the untold power of the stars that we see unfurling ahead of us.
What the elites fail to comprehend is that this mission cannot so easily be snuffed out because it is the indissoluble and essential nature of us all. So, it is with that thought and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy that I wish you all a Happy New Year.
It is not the "dark side of the moon," it is the BACK SIDE OF THE MOON!
ReplyDeleteYes technically you are right of course. Except for the other side of the moon’s benefit of being dark from the standpoint of a clear telescopic view free from the Earth’s atmosphere.
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