One small step for man

The epitomizing event of the 20th century is the moon landing
We shot for the moon and landed on the moon after bartering a modest fortune for materials and research, compensated partially by an intricate sponsorship from the US government
All who were able watched it on television from wherever they were
images too amazing to be real
scenes we can watch on youtube whenever we think to (7 million views)
And to me it's not what we achieved but what we left behind
We left the ocean unexplored
We dedicated our efforts and sold out our cynicism to watch men in ties and white shirts build a machine designed to leave the world behind
We looked outward to gather information instead of inward to gather understanding
It was a heartwarming moment where government suspended institutional cynicism and embraced intellectualism, provided some very specific needs were met regarding national self image
a first kiss as an Act I sc. 1 to a comedy of errors where characters work diligently towards frivolous goals
toiling so hard that even when they triumph and gain whatever the hell they wanted in the first place you stand and applaud out of both pity and pride, a cocktail you enjoy until the bartender tells you what's in it
Shoulder to shoulder with strangers watching a man encased in technology gambol about the ultimate vacuum of a truly natural apathy
an environment that was very rationally and a little insultingly doing everything it could to kill them
We loomed over the heads of children from the armchair next to the lamp and fawned over the sum of all our competitive efforts

'Hey look at us
We did that'

Good for us

guhhhh

blame everything and do nothing

you couldn't if you tried

stand in the place where you live now face left think about your future wonder why you don't have one anymore

close your eyes and think about all the beaches that you will never see the warm sun the sand the water and how clean it is

think about that while you're doing something you have to do but don't want to do

think about the future

i have a feeling

i have bizarre unpopular opinions

i am the fringe candidate who does not receive the party's nomination and is forced to run as an independent despite his better judgment

maybe it's time to scale down the judgments and up the rhetoric

tell them what they would like to hear they will love you for it

or whatever, it doesn't have to be love necessarily

it's important to know what love is just in case you think you're in it and you're not

because you might not be in love

there are all sorts of relationships out there and some of them are actually terrible

the worse thing is to think you know

the ok thing is to know you don't know

the bad thing is to not know you don't know