I often have insights for writing in the early morning hours. They don’t get translated to actual writing often enough. This is a hybrid, an idea that I don’t remember perfectly that I still want to flesh out.
In my mind, as a child of the 1960s, I have held up the Apollo moon landing program as a perfect example of the best a country can do for its people. Spending on the space program in the decade of the ‘60s was a significant portion of overall economic activity. What other activity with comparable spending – non military, very important – has the United States taken on in the last 100 years?
The money spent, to say nothing of the lives lost, on various wars and weapons systems in that time period I am specifically excluding from this discussion.
A few mornings ago in the wee hours, I had an excellent comparison but I can’t think of it right now. Grrr! The Interstate Highway system comes to mind at the moment but I think there is a better comparison. I am not writing a scholarly paper so you will see no research, statistics etc. This is completely off the cuff. I do remember thinking that this comparison might actually be worthy of a real dissertation, though.
Hoover Dam? The California Water Project? Hmmmm . . .
This will have to be continued . . .