The moon program came as the world was ending with communists taking over the world, the Vietnam War and morality was decaying in the '60s.
I remember those years and the 'end of civilization' crowd.
We create more real wealth today than ever before. We feed more people than ever before. We live longer, we live better. By every measure, life has improved since the '60s. Those were NOT the good old days.
/johnny
I do not despair and neither do I believe silly headlines. Faith in God implies belief in an end to all earthly things. I believe there is more evidence for that outcome than anything like Mars travel.
I remember those years, too. Communism was not ascendant. The love of freedom was common and America was strong and essentially united on the belief of our just cause. Politicians gave away Viet Nam - not Americans. Decades of agitation and propaganda do not dim my recollections.
Actually real wealth is sourced from natural resources and, on that account, we produce less and less each year even if our consumption goes up at the cost of our seed corn. If you believe in fictional basis for wealth - as in information and service economies, then, yes, creative accounting allows for more dollars in our GDP. However, debased currency may put that willow-the-wisp to rest as well.
Yes, tis true we produce more food than ever before, but I would have to disagree that we live better and I think by most measures we have lost, rather than gained, ground.
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