July 20, 2005

Green cheese stuck with a small American flag

I'm told by people over fifty that the "maiden voyage" to the moon transformed--overnight, literally--the way the people looked up at the night sky. From a glowing orb dangling mythically among the stars to an actual place, like a nation, or maybe not quite a nation but a protectorate, like Puerto Rico. For the benefit of public dreams, I'm all for a take-back by the collective unconscious.