Based on the "holocaust is a myth" survey, it appears you your average Holocaust denier is a urban, black, zoomer, male who's a hard Left Democrat but thinks he's actually quite moderate.
"One of the great unfortunate revelations of the past several years is the extent to which even culturally pluralistic America is tribalistic. Crisis tends to exacerbate, not dampen, tribalism."
Sebastian Junger's book Tribe is very good if you haven't read it.
"I get the sense the preparedness you’re seeing on the Left today is a response to the possibility of Trump and the Right returning to power."
What happens if Trump actually wins? 2016 featured tens of thousands of people chanting "not my president" for weeks on end. Will 2020 feature an armed version of that? I fear these folks will convince themselves that they're fighting fascism by trying to overthrow democracy. That really does sound like an insurrection.
On Apollo 13, everyone always talked about the "failure is not an option" scene, but the "make a square peg fit into a round hole" is my personal favorite.
Years later, I learned that the "square peg in a round hole" solution wasn't devised in a pinch. It was actually a scenario NASA had anticipated before Apollo 13. Once the explosion occurred and it became apparent they had to bring the astronauts back, a team immediately got to work coming up with a way to jury-rig a filter system using two incompatible scrubbers. By the time the CO levels began reaching toxic levels, the solution was already in place, ready to go.
So the real story isn't one of improvisation, but of anticipation, foresight, and... PREPAREDNESS. Still, when a million things have already gone wrong, I'm sure the last thing Gene Kranz and the other flight directors wanted to hear was, "Oh, by the way, they're going to suffocate to death on the way home, but don't worry boss, we're working on something!"
It's a great movie, but it still doesn't capture the full scope of the human effort exerted to overcome every last challenge along the way. Even the jettisoning of the lunar module at the end of the mission is a story of it's own:
Based on the "holocaust is a myth" survey, it appears you your average Holocaust denier is a urban, black, zoomer, male who's a hard Left Democrat but thinks he's actually quite moderate.
"One of the great unfortunate revelations of the past several years is the extent to which even culturally pluralistic America is tribalistic. Crisis tends to exacerbate, not dampen, tribalism."
Sebastian Junger's book Tribe is very good if you haven't read it.
"I get the sense the preparedness you’re seeing on the Left today is a response to the possibility of Trump and the Right returning to power."
What happens if Trump actually wins? 2016 featured tens of thousands of people chanting "not my president" for weeks on end. Will 2020 feature an armed version of that? I fear these folks will convince themselves that they're fighting fascism by trying to overthrow democracy. That really does sound like an insurrection.
On Apollo 13, everyone always talked about the "failure is not an option" scene, but the "make a square peg fit into a round hole" is my personal favorite.
Years later, I learned that the "square peg in a round hole" solution wasn't devised in a pinch. It was actually a scenario NASA had anticipated before Apollo 13. Once the explosion occurred and it became apparent they had to bring the astronauts back, a team immediately got to work coming up with a way to jury-rig a filter system using two incompatible scrubbers. By the time the CO levels began reaching toxic levels, the solution was already in place, ready to go.
So the real story isn't one of improvisation, but of anticipation, foresight, and... PREPAREDNESS. Still, when a million things have already gone wrong, I'm sure the last thing Gene Kranz and the other flight directors wanted to hear was, "Oh, by the way, they're going to suffocate to death on the way home, but don't worry boss, we're working on something!"
It's a great movie, but it still doesn't capture the full scope of the human effort exerted to overcome every last challenge along the way. Even the jettisoning of the lunar module at the end of the mission is a story of it's own:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/bernard-etkin-helped-avert-apollo-13-tragedy/article19735265/#dashboard/follows/