Anil Dash
I'm trying to make tech a little bit more ethical and humane. (I'm also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/
Sure, I was proud that America accomplished the moon landing, but in America back then, the chauvinism (defn: excessive or prejudiced loyalty or support for one’s own cause, group, or gender) we have today in our soceity regarding pretty much all human being’s petty differences, including age, was not nearly so pronounced.
Good article Anil.
Terry Perkinson
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Given that Jim Crow laws were still in place when the Apollo program started, I’m not sure this is historically accurate. It may simply be that those on the wrong side of institutional expressions of chauvinism were less allowed to complain.
But I understand the sentiment you are expressing, and I appreciate that. Saying the Apollo program was for older people is simply a statement of fact; it was created by, for and with a cohort older than my own.
