The farther out in space you travel, the more alike back
here on Terra Firma we all look. That might be the most compelling argument to
ever be made for space travel as we continue down here on the Big, Blue Marble
to find differences within distinctions to match every political belief and
social more.
I came across a story by the Christian Science Monitor
(not known, at least to me, to be an intemperate or radical revisionist
soapbox) whose headline simultaneously enticed and saddened me, “Why Many Americans Hold False Beliefs about WMDs in Iraq and
Obama’s birthplace.”
Well, boy howdy. And I thought those who still murmur about
how NASA staged the ‘moon landing’ in a New Mexico desert were sad. I didn't realize that in light of what we seem to be willing to believe, they might
actually be among the more sane and sober of the conspiracists.
And talk about a no-solace situation, the article
concludes, “…in a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it’s comforting to have
reasons and answers, even if they’re wrong.” Yeah, we may often be wrong, but
we’re always loud.
Cheer up, I was told, things could always get worse. So I
did, and they did too.
-bill kenny
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