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4/21/2012 3 Comments Didn't we land men on the moon?OpinionBILL WHITTLE, a commentator on PJTV, went on a rant the other day claiming that our children didn't know that man had once walked on the moon. Seriously, how could that possibly be true? I spoke to my fifteen year old granddaughter a few days later. We stumbled through the conversation. Besides the generational difference, she lives with her grandmother, my ex-wife, on the opposite side of the country. She is being exposed to political, societal, cultural, and socioeconomic differences that form a chasm between us. However, our infrequent contacts give me the advantage in that I'm not a constant embarrassment or irritant in her daily life. Thus, I was able to slip in an innocent question: “Did you know that men had walked on the moon?” I was hoping for a surprise but disappointed when she said, “No, I didn't know that.” One ignorant child is not an indictment of the whole system. However, it is my grandchild and it's enough to confirm that Whittle's assertion may be true. One of America's and mankind's greatest technological achievements, and she has been denied knowledge of it. Whittle claims that some her age are even denying the event. Why? Of course, Whittle – a “knuckle-dragging” conservative – goes for the progressive's jugular and blames it on their wish to denigrate our nation in the eyes of our children. Now, we know that progressives dominate our institutions of education. This is demonstrably true. As I discussed in an earlier posting, it is easy to surmise that the lessons that we learned in civics and American history are being replaced with ideological indoctrination. (See Are Our Children Being Programmed?) Whittle also went on to rant about the fact that virtual friends are replacing actual relationships. Well, I can't argue too much with that observation. How about you? Have you watched people around you in public places, ignoring their companions while they text and talk on their cell phones? Have you seen them posting on FaceBook and Twitter with their iPads while they're sharing a meal at home or away? I have. I see it happening every time I leave the house. But, is that really significant? Who cares if people prefer keeping their friends at a distance? They won't catch the flu from virtual encounters, will they?
If everyone is so well connected, I shouldn't have any problem finding out if other people have observed the same thing. Does your child know about the moon mission? Do you know?
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4/22/2012 12:57:10 am
We live in our own virtual world of science fiction, and the machines are beginning to rule the world. It has reached the point where two people at the same table in a restaurant text each other rather than carry on a conversation. Such a shame.
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4/23/2012 02:46:54 am
Jack, I remember vividly watching Neil Armstrong take that "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." I don't find it difficult at all to believe that many people do not realize we accomplished such a thing. As Americans we have never had a curiosity about history, so far as I can tell. I don;t understand why, but I believe it is true. The thing about it for me is not that it is the result of anyone's political agenda, but that it makes the American people easy prey for ideas that have already failed in the court of history. When you couple that with the inwardness of social media, it is a bad combination.
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4/23/2012 08:53:33 am
We are without a doubt moving toward a new phase of human being and once again examining it not at all. Basic beige, socially isolated, more fantasy, more purposelessness - a strange and painful fork in the road and almost antithetical to the creature's actuality.
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