tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post3522300332113524959..comments2024-03-28T14:29:07.462-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: Scott Pelley, phallologocentristMichael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-57383831906348516792014-11-13T05:38:10.967-06:002014-11-13T05:38:10.967-06:00Saying "the European Space Agency" expli...Saying "the European Space Agency" explicitly excludes America, and heaven knows America doesn't ever want to be excluded from something that's groundbreaking. Saying "mankind" is a way of saying, "Hey, us too! USA!"Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107273328729752475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-13140322661491204252014-11-12T20:56:41.957-06:002014-11-12T20:56:41.957-06:00Working backwards, the entire species does not wri...Working backwards, the entire species does not write a sentence nor does mankind write a sentence. The West does not write a sentence nor does a consortium of nations write a sentence. A nation does not write a sentence nor does a collective write a sentence. No club and no tribe writes a sentence. An individual writes a sentence. Two individuals might write, one to the other. An editor might alter an original sentence, but two do not write. One writes. The nature of most work is individual, aggregating in joint efforts. But without the individual at the center, there is no man, no mankind. There is no word to be written, and no accomplishment. One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind? Given the moribund space program in the US, that giant leap was a small step, after all. The landing on a comet might be rather like that. Let's wait a decade or two before "man" may cheer himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com