With your feet in the air and your head on the ground

Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

NASA can't explain why we need a lunar colony.
This is a perfect example of the problem with government programs, and on a larger scale our government in general.

Everything starts out, well intended, and with a lot of potential. Eventually an agency will reach is potential, and solve the problem it was working on. Naturally, then the agency/program would be disbanded and the resources would be reallocated, right? Not right. Now the agency goes into survival mode. Every agency eventually turns into an agency whose main goal is to get more funding for the agency.

During the Cold War, the United States played an important part in the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Its main goal, at that time, was to form a strong realtionship between America and the stronger European governments so that there would be a strong alliance in place if the impending war created by the arms race were to ever come to fruition. During the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO helped to provide stability to Eastern Europe. Now, NATO's main mission is to support the United Nations. Of course, all of the member nations of NATO are also part of the UN. So what is the purpose of NATO? As far as I can tell, the only remaining purpose of NATO is to keep NATO intact.

Why are we still contributing resources to this? Why do we need a lunar colony? Why do our public universities continue to pay to expand facilites while their own students are complaining of drastically increasing tuition?



Currently Listening to:
Surfer Rosa
by The Pixies