29 October

58% of Americans opposed going to the moon, when Kennedy announced it. ‘Moonshot’ became a term to mean pushing for a massive collective achievement. Kennedy succeeded. Compare and contrast this with the pandemic, where the most powerful voices are those telling us to give up, that ‘you can’t eliminate Covid’, that we have to ‘live with it’. Ask yourselves what alternative moonshots are these people offering us? What great community aims, what longstanding problems and suffering do they want us to overcome, together? You won’t find anything. Their aims are all about consolidating their own privilege. Tax cuts is about the only public policy they have. Those who vote for them want to ‘have fun’, to travel and have big expensive homes and high status education for their kids. No collective vision at all, just mass wanking.