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From Superhero Babylon: "One Giant Leap"![]() Submitted by Jmaurone on Mon, 2009-07-20 15:20
"It was the overwhelming response of people starved for the sight of an achievement, for a vision of man the hero." What was so heroic about the first moon landing? I'm going to turn the floor over to the words of Ayn Rand on this one, who's said it better than anyone else I've heard. How about this:
Or this:
Or this:
Rand was a big supporter of this event, while other commentators of the day went on about about the "collective" significance of the "Dionysian" Woodstock festival, deriding the "destruction" of the "poetic-romantic glamour of the moon" by the Apollo landing. [Side note: with the recent death of legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite, I have to add that Rand noted him as an "notable exception" to the Apollo-haters, who still exist today in the legacy of the "Anti-Industrial Revolution."] She saw that there was indeed more peace, love, and passion involved in the latter, and gave a better description of the "Apollonian" side of life that did not divorce reason from passion. Despite the subsequent lackluster legacy of NASA since the moon landing, Rand reminds us that the ultimate achievement of Apollo 11 isn't scientific, but, in the best sense of the word, "spiritual":
In other words,
(originally published at Superhero Babylon)
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Good point
The money NASA used to send man to the moon was stolen.
There is a danger in making exceptions to morality to achieve beautiful ends.
But in the continuum of worthless government waste, man's feet on the moon was inspirational and was a vision of man as hero in a very important way. A more worthy use of the unearned.
It was the victory of man's intellect (a demonstration of the triumph of man's mind over shockingly complex problems), rather, than, say, man the hero as an athlete or dancer.
Also, thanks for the suggestion of "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"-- I haven't read that book in 20 years. It is even better the second time.