There is a great scene in a documentary called “In the Shadow of the Moon” where the world comes together. There is a single moment when a common dream was fulfilled and we were all people, people together as one.
The film is a series of interviews with the surviving astronauts who've been out of contact with planet Earth. These are the people who have orbited the moon, and when in the shadow, could only see space and that large block of cheese.
Watching movie rekindles so many forgotten emotions and feelings. Sitting in school and watching space shots, being at home to see Neil Armstrong take his “one small step”.
"In the Shadow of the Moon" shows that everyone in the world, everyone was doing the exact same thing. Watching awe turned to jubilation is so incredible, so natural and so much a part of the human experience… You wonder why we don't do it more.
Instead of producing scientists and engineers we produce lawyers and cultural studies aficionados. In times gone past, cultural studies aficionados were called uncle Gustav with his stupid accordion and flash camera. Stephen Wright had a great line, “99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name."
Today we have the ability to feed everyone on the planet, to eliminate 80% of the known diseases and to enter a new Renaissance of human experience.
If the United States just took the money that we spend on The consumption and treatment of meth-amphetamines, cocaine and heroin; and applied them to doing something good… We would be there.
The synthetic manipulation of mind and mood with various substances reduces our ability to care and help one another. If you want to feel good… Invest your humanity in a cause that helps others.
It is not that hard for each of us to take one small step.
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