I hate to say this, but this whole piece just reeks of reactionary postmodern celebration of a lone, absurdist contrarian. I stopped reading when the author dol

I hate to say this, but this whole piece just reeks of reactionary postmodern celebration of a lone, absurdist contrarian. I stopped reading when the author doled out the painful phrase “It must mean something that only 12 humans have walked, laughed, and even danced on the lunar surface, and all were white men”. Beg your pardon? It certainly doesn’t need to mean anything beyond that we collectively abandoned our ambitions before the modern drive for equality kicked in – and that means that the moonshot was a throughly modern, as opposed to societally self-absorbed post-modern enterprise. Trotting out a theologian, if the Catholic vein who allegedly believed in a personal and very much masculine God in the Judeo-Christian tradition and using his words as an excuse to segue into this kind of tacked-on, post-hock drivel is nigh unforgivable. Should’ve people of other races and genders walked on the moon too? Certainly. Because we shouldn’t have stopped going there once the symbolic victory was attained. But to disparage the achievement by draping it in the cultural terms of our time is just... hideous revisionism. I’m beside myself with contempt for the author and the editor. Stuff your revisionism and woke virtue-signalling where the sun doesn’t shine and at the awkwardest angle you can devise.