53 years ago yesterday, Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. "One small step for man, one giant step for mankind." I remember the day. Morning in Milwaukee at the Campus Rectory, my dad was a UWM chaplain, and my parents called me in, "Look at this, son!" And I did, a flickering black and white image of a man on the Moon, history in the making. Quite a thing.
Of course Neil Armstrong wouldn't be able to say "man" and "mankind" today because patriarchal oppression. By the same token, we haven't really been back to the Moon and no wonder, we've devolved to such an extent that we're unable to define "man" and "woman." Is that a first? Perhaps.
Speaking of which, world leaders are Bastille Day laughing at us. Wonder why. At some point, maybe soon, narrative will flounder on the rocky shore of reality.
Watch my tracer,
LSP
That's one small step for a binary male who cannot give birth, one giant leap for non-binary peoples everywhere. You know, the birthing people.
ReplyDeleteLord help us, because we can't help ourselves.
ReplyDeleteYou all be safe and God bless.
1969 was a high point in US history but the decline and rot had already began. Starting with LBJ's Great Society and nifty money making war in Vietnam, the rot continued with Tricky Dicky. If one believes in the pendulum theory of politics/society I hope we are near the apogee.
ReplyDeleteOur rulers have taken a giant leap of bad faith, but the thing in the last image won't be making any giant leaps in those heels.
ReplyDelete"and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their household and all Korah's men and all their possessions."
ReplyDeleteInfidel, one day we must meet up on the Island for a drink. Is that still allowed in your brave new pronoun utopia?
ReplyDeleteLinda, an appeal to the Divine Omnipotence is most definitely in order!
ReplyDeleteCurious, WSF, I was having exactly that conversation last night - rot set in with LBJ. Mind you, far sighted people point to 1913 and the Fed. Perhaps one led to the other.
ReplyDeleteIt's like some kind of perverted goblin, Pewster, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteWhoa, Sgt., on point.
ReplyDeleteThat last picture, prom night at the White House?
ReplyDeleteYou'd think so, Wild, but no, some palace in Paris on Bastille Day. Even the French are laughing at us.
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