cleaver
Literotica Koro
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the emergence of spaceflight
from the daredevilry of suborbital sling shots
the 'race' with the soviets (mitigating some hot aspects of a cold war)
space walks
rendezvous
to apollo 11
apollo 13 and the miraculous ingenuity to work a problem while the world watched
to...
the media moving on...
losing all real traction, funding, support...
momentum squandered...
also,
must see tv. event tv.
no home video taping, dvr, netflix etc...
now, or not part of the it.
roots captivated a fortnight and drove a (inter)national dialog almost as forcefully as any thing to that date.
and too, the above... july 20, 1969.
the whole known intelligent universe was one with two humans on another world...
crystal, nearly universal moments delivered by idiot box...
the immediacy and focus is something now drowned out by logarithmic variety, accessibility and general noise.
perhaps one more.
a general sense of modesty.
when pornography was less "available"
when a sense of *wink-wink* 'naughty' still applied...
when the tease of nudity still held some sway...
i am not sure where this point goes...
but,
instant availability - through the net
of any imaginable predilection
graphically displayed
on any number of media
in any place at any time
has seriously desensitized a populous...
privacy is now myth.
the opiate has well infused the bloodstream
the search for even greater titillation
numbs and dumbs the simple things that could and did get us going...
kids see cocks and twats and buggery (in many flavors)
long before any of "us" knew where to look at their age...
before any of "us" even realized that there was something to look for...
the drive we had, to explore these things, inter-personally...
is kind of bleached out in our next generations...
i do wonder what the long term effects
of this particular aspect of the info-explosion age
will ultimately have?
from the daredevilry of suborbital sling shots
the 'race' with the soviets (mitigating some hot aspects of a cold war)
space walks
rendezvous
to apollo 11
apollo 13 and the miraculous ingenuity to work a problem while the world watched
to...
the media moving on...
losing all real traction, funding, support...
momentum squandered...
also,
must see tv. event tv.
no home video taping, dvr, netflix etc...
now, or not part of the it.
roots captivated a fortnight and drove a (inter)national dialog almost as forcefully as any thing to that date.
and too, the above... july 20, 1969.
the whole known intelligent universe was one with two humans on another world...
crystal, nearly universal moments delivered by idiot box...
the immediacy and focus is something now drowned out by logarithmic variety, accessibility and general noise.
perhaps one more.
a general sense of modesty.
when pornography was less "available"
when a sense of *wink-wink* 'naughty' still applied...
when the tease of nudity still held some sway...
i am not sure where this point goes...
but,
instant availability - through the net
of any imaginable predilection
graphically displayed
on any number of media
in any place at any time
has seriously desensitized a populous...
privacy is now myth.
the opiate has well infused the bloodstream
the search for even greater titillation
numbs and dumbs the simple things that could and did get us going...
kids see cocks and twats and buggery (in many flavors)
long before any of "us" knew where to look at their age...
before any of "us" even realized that there was something to look for...
the drive we had, to explore these things, inter-personally...
is kind of bleached out in our next generations...
i do wonder what the long term effects
of this particular aspect of the info-explosion age
will ultimately have?