Americans Doing Great Things Without Regard for Diversity
Man does not live by bread alone. It’s appropriate for a great people to do things simply for the honor and wonder of achievement: sailing around the globe, exploring the stars, authoring literature, poetry, and making great art. The 1960s era space program was once such thing. A flicker of its greatness has existed ever since. NASA’s budget, while substantial, yielded many times its numbers in national pride, national prestige, and knowledge. Consider Hubble alone! Of course, NASA needs reform, not least in the way of efficiency, mission focus, and deep-sixing its egregious affirmative action policies. But it makes sense for a great nation to put man into orbit and to explore the stars, for reasons of national defense alone. None of this means anything to Obama and others like him. Obama only cares about redistributing wealth to his mostly minority constituencies. He implied it was a matter of “better or worse” that we’re a super-power. Not for long with him at the helm. And he’s killing the space program as part of his program.
The general weakening of our culture, the honor due our civilizational allies like Poland and Great Britain, and making tough choices on entitlements are all non-concerns for Obama. He is excited by making the last first and degrading symbolically all that was glorious and note-worthy about the old oppressor America, that is the entire history of America before he was born. This is a guy who has much more concern for a white cop in Cambridge’s than the white dots in the sky that represent other worlds and ultimate destiny of our mankind. He allegedly wants to stimulate the economy, while destroying one of the few government activities–defense and aerospace–that actually does create wealth and technology useful for the rest of the society. Better to fund midnight basketball, internet cafes in Detroit, and God knows what else rather than embracing something that hints at national greatness. Because that greatness undermines the premise of deep evil in the heart of America before its descent into leftism, self-hatred, and multicultural reengineering over the last 30 years.
It fills me with great sadness to see the images of well groomed engineers before America was “diversified” doing great things. This, the America that supposedly needed diversity, a sexual revolution, forced integration, and a huge welfare state before it would be worth a damn. And, yet, it’s there for eyes to see: the land and the people that put a Man on the Moon did not need diversity at all. It was a homogenous people, as real a people as those of any other nation. And that land and that people are dying. Or, rather, they are being murdered.
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I appreciate greatly the sentiments in this post. Mr. Roach, what of the Constitutionality of NASA? And is there no legitimate argument, in your opinion, that our gov’t should put space exploration on hold until we sort other, more pressing problems out?
I am not implying that this is what Obama is doing, by the way.
Mr Toddard – in what timeframe do you see the government sorting out its other, more pressing problems?
I don’t see them doing that at all. Ever, really. I do not expect our downward slide to be reversed, halted or even slowed. And, as I wrote, I don’t believe this is what Obama is doing (putting NASA on hold to sort out more pressing probs). I am asking Mr. Roach if there isn’t an argument that this *should* be done. Considering the state of our economy and debt, and the cultural dissolution that accompanied that downslide, I would not consider it out of line to propose a moratorium on space exploration while we pay down our debt and work to end/federalize social security, medicare etc. And the question of constitutionality remains.
I agree that this is a bit of a luxury. to me the more pressing problems are unnecessary and counter-productive government expenditures that destroy families and initiative. If they didn’t exist, this would be a smallish program that did great things. these other expenditures swallow up all of the legitimate activity of government.
I agree with Obama. We can’t afford the luxury of another trip to the moon. We’re drowning in debt and our industrial base has been decimated by imports. Back in the 60′s, we made everything. As an example, the miniature color television cameras that recorded the moon landings and considered a marvel of engineering at the time were designed and built by Westinghouse. Westinghouse, one of our industrial gems is no more- broken up and sold piecemeal by Wall Street.
China is turning out 850,000 engineers per year. The students in U.S. university doctoral progams in engineering are majority foreign, mostly Chinese and Indian. If we did reconstitute the space program in a big way, it is likely that most of the new hires will not be American whites and a lot of the components will be built by foreign subcontractors.
But he is spending a lot more than NASA’s budget in order to force working people to give health care to the poor and the old. This is not a formula for fiscal austerity. He just prefers spendy programs that redistribute wealth rather than anything that is actually useful or makes our nation stronger.
Chris, I agree with almost all of this. But how can you, who describe yourself as a “believing Catholic,” say that “the white dots in the sky … represent other worlds and ultimate destiny of our mankind” ?
Do you not believe the ultimate destiny of mankind is to be reunited with God? Space travel is interesting and possibly useful, but it takes place in the material world, not the world of spirit.
Actually, we were quite diverse. We had English, Scottish, Irish, Jewish, Russian, German and every other European ethnic group working together. We even had European imports like Werner Von Braun who was welcomed with open arms.
It always gets me how the Left claims we’ve only become diverse post 1965.
Why doesn’t our melting pot get credit for uniting the then 88% of the nation that was of European origin? Admittedly the black population was not fully integrated, and still is not, but to imagine the various peoples of Europe melding into one nationality is impressive given how their former countrymen were not always the best of friends. Think of all the conflicts between British and Irish, Russian and Jew, German and French, Protestant and Catholic. Yet in America our melting pot brought these folks together.
Rusty,
As Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza has pointed out, the various Germanic tribes (Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Danes, etc.), Celtic tribes (Scotts, Irish, etc.) and Slavic tribes (Russians, etc.) are actually all closely related. Although they have their differences, they are all still European. To compare differences between these groups with differences between Europeans and non-Euopeans is not only specious but dishonest.
Not murder but suicide:
“What justice ever other judgement taught,
But he should die, who merites not to live?
None else to death this man despayring drive,
But his owne guiltie mind deserving death.
Is then unjust to each his due to give?
Or let him die, that loatheth living breath? Or let him die at ease, that liveth here uneath?”
- Edmund Spenser
Rick and Rusty, thanks for your comments. I agree Rick that I probably overstated the meaning of space travel, insofar as it is worldly and material. That said, it has a spiritual dimension insofar as it asks us to see beyond ourselves, this planet, and requires discipline and imagination. And the European melting pot and the equation of all American whites as if they have no interesting individual histories or their getting along is not note-worthy is an ignorant reduction of things wrought by the multiculti left. I guess “diversity” in the sense I’m using here is what it means today: bringing low IQ people of Third World origins into positions they’re not qualified for and calling it a great thing and the mark of justice.
MAR said:
To compare differences between these groups with differences between Europeans and non-Euopeans is not only specious but dishonest.
That is not true, unless you think diversity simply means a difference in skin color. I always thought diversity meant more and took into account the different worldview of people which arises due to their cultural, linguistic, religious, and educational background, as well as the manner in which they earn a living.
By my definition there are plenty of differences in European groups regardless of any shared DNA. Think about the ways religion developed in these nations between Catholic, Latin Europe and the Protestant North. Think about the various political ideologies that came from Europe from the Classical Liberals of our founding to the Marxist Reds. They might be distant cousins, but their differences were big enough to lead to the greatest conflicts in world history.
The fact that kinsmen of both sides of these massive conflicts could come to America, and Canada for that matter, to unite into one nationality is truly remarkable. Because many on the Left do not recognize this, the lessons of how this was accomplished are lost.
Rusty, I think Roach was agreeing with you. I think he was saying that the lumping of all the different European cultures which contributed to the American identity into some sort of monolithic and oppressive white hegemony is typical Leftist thinking.
Oh, sorry, I see that you were responding to an earlier comment from another poster. Never mind.
“And is there no legitimate argument, in your opinion, that our gov’t should put space exploration on hold until we sort other, more pressing problems out”
If “sorted out” means corrected, completed, eradicated, etc., then the answer is no. We can’t postpone doing everything else until crime, for example, has been eradicated. Or untill injustice is eradicated. Or until poverty and pollution are no more. The government attempting impossible things is one reason there is no money for NASA.
It is sad to consider how quickly and comprehensively we have fallen: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/far_from_the_sea_of_tranquility/
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