As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “The Art of Not Being Governed,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
![“For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: ‘We came in peace for all mankind.’ As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives of small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.” – Carl Sagan](http://acidrayn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-22-Three-Cheers-for-Statist-Progress.jpg)
“For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: ‘We came in peace for all mankind.’ As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives of small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.” – Carl Sagan
My Commentary: Three cheers for Statist “progress”! 😉
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