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All the grievances of Whitey on the Moon can be, and regularly are, offered today. Yet Whitey hasn't been to the Moon in 50 years. It's almost as if one has n
by topspin 3y ago
All the grievances of Whitey on the Moon can be, and regularly are, offered today. Yet Whitey hasn't been to the Moon in 50 years. It's almost as if one has nothing to do with the other.
- rhcom2 3y agoOr maybe those grievances have never been sufficiently addressed.
- topspin 3y agoPerhaps. Now all that's left to you is to define "address." I suspect what you come up with would be entirely orthogonal to the US space program. I know you could snatch every cent of treasure spent on Apollo and use it in any conceivable manner on Whitey on the Moon grievances and the needle wouldn't move one iota: the engrieved will sing it still.
- rhcom2 3y ago"Address" would be have a serious discussion about the priorities - both fiscally and socially - of the United States. In a sense you're right that the US Space Program is a drop in the bucket compared to other spending but Gil Scott-Heron's poem was never a financial proposal. It was trying to express a sentiment that the US government's priorities were messed up, something that still resonates today.
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