40 years since Woodstock. And from the Moon Landing. Are we so much more controlled by the corporate robots that we can’t exceed or at least equal our human achievements and our sense of joy from the 60s?
We grounded the Concorde and replaced it with nothing. We are grounding the Space Shuttle and replace it with obsolete, no-return craft.
In the West we are fatter than ever and junk food operators post record profits during recession. Most of Africa remains below poverty. In Congo children dig uranium ore with their bare hands.
In some countries kids can start a gay relationship at sixteen with funding from the government but can’t buy a beer for their dad until they are eighteen.
Jews overtly kill Muslims, Muslims openly kill Christians, Christians have just stopped killing Jews.
Ex-communist billionaire oligarchs buy and sell nuclear stuff to dictators of empty-stomach republics.
The only true war in the last four decades should have been the Falkland/Malvine one. Ugly enough this one, too.
Some corporate CEOs earn more than a rock star and pretty much all big CEOs earn more than the number one tennis player. However, in Africa, Asia and Oceania people who live half the years others live in the West earn less in a month than the equivalent of my dog’s daily breakfast. (Mind you: I don’t really work but I have two big dogs.)
