"Buried under the detritus of a demoralized culture, a lethargic and idiotic government, a benighted academia, an entrenched financial sector that destroys more than it creates, and a rigged legal system that impedes more than it facilitates, the spiritus Americanus is all but dead. Indeed, most Americans have no historical memory that it ever existed. They do not know that once, not so long ago, we had The Right Stuff.”
Sadly, best single-paragraph capture of our shattered cultural landscape jn memory.
Great article if you believe that there’s absolutely no reason to preserve the environment to preserve human life. We need balance in everything we do.
"Buried under the detritus of a demoralized culture, a lethargic and idiotic government, a benighted academia, an entrenched financial sector that destroys more than it creates, and a rigged legal system that impedes more than it facilitates, the spiritus Americanus is all but dead. Indeed, most Americans have no historical memory that it ever existed. They do not know that once, not so long ago, we had The Right Stuff.”
Sadly, best single-paragraph capture of our shattered cultural landscape jn memory.
Aspiring to the grand and noble is probably the only thing the West will leave to its remainderman.
Great article! I believe we can do more and believe bigger and see Mars. I like the idea of living life.
Great article if you believe that there’s absolutely no reason to preserve the environment to preserve human life. We need balance in everything we do.