Artemis II flew around the moon recently, the media everywhere was full of praise.
Why?
I saw them fly around the moon many years ago, and then I sat up late at night watching a man or two walk around on the moon itself. Unless it was staged in Arizona of course.
Several US men walked across the moon, the Chinese, who years before had photographed the back side of the moon have also been landing things there. NASA have machines crawling across Mars so why all the excitement about a well chosen crew, political correctness enforced, flying around it once again while sending back more photographs similar to those we already had 70 years ago?
Now such activities are difficult, much easier with today's computers in comparison with the ones from the past. Those were less powerful than my calculator, but they made it there and back again.
Could it be that this was another excellent opportunity to praise the power of the United States while avoiding talking about the child rapist in the White House and the war he lost while following Bibi's orders? Flying around the moon is not easy, but propaganda has always been easy, and we have some here in front of us.
'Communities,' what does this mean?
Every day and everywhere you go this word crops up. Governments and councils talk about 'Helping our communities,' what? What communities? This town has around 40,000, how many 'communities' are there within?
There are the old and the young, those working and those disabled, shops and shoppers, transport links and users, what communities can they mean? People get involved with the gym, or the pub, kids work or libraries, volunteering or mini cabbing, what do they mean by communities unless they mean people living and doing what they do in town?
The word 'communities,' implies lots of different communities. In a town there is only one, the people living there, and many of them we do not wish to have near us, is this a 'community?' Various colours can be seen, is communities a word used to integrate or divide? Tell me! I once heard a London police officer, under stress from the press, say "We are in the community to help the community for the sake of the community." Whatever that is supposed to mean I fail to comprehend.
There are no 'communities, only people. These live in cities, towns and villages, those are their community, but they do not always like one another, so is it a community, or just people living near one another?
Language changes constantly, sometimes the words used ought to be dropped in my view.
