40 years from the Moon

40 years ago, fascinating to contemplate the past. As difficult as that year was, with regard to the continued war in Southeast Asia, the recent wave of assasinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, the complex nascent struggles for equality for all and economic justice, in terms of color and gender, still, perhaps 1969 was the highpoint of America's postwar hegemony. The technological prowess that got the US to the moon, using computing machinery that represented the best of that era, but that probably pale by comparison. Yet, the USA accomplished this remarkable feat.

The same year that Woodstock became a symbol for alternative ways of living, being, sharing, evolving, both within our own country and across our entire planet. As I quoted in my posting a few days ago, and as the late Jerry Garcia really indicated to me at a press gathering back in 1977, there is the technical, but, "Our first and foremost task is learning to be Human Beings."

Buy that view or not, the technical achievements of the past, as fantastic, visionary, and spiritual as they are, always bring us back to the human challenges of the present and future.

More on the Apollo 11 mission here:
http://www.wechoosethemoon.org