Tuesday, August 18, 2009
DISFAVORED TECHNOLOGIES
As long readers of this blog will know, I am a strong proponent of two technologies that have what I believe to be truly world-changing possibilities, nuclear power and "missile defense." Both are and have been strongly disfavored by the left, the deep "Green-Red Alliance" that preaches a broad anti-technology gospel. Each addresses a basic threat to the core vitality of our civilization posed by backward societies that have the potential to hold us hostage. Both technologies have to be supported by our political "leadership" in order to overcome an inertia against them that has been injected into our political culture by the left. Both are threatened by the fact that the left is currently in power in the nation that has, until now, led the free world. We live in a moment of great peril, but great promise, if only we can be shaken from our fears and embrace our potential. Will we awaken?
These thoughts are prompted by two items that have come to my attention in the last day. The first is the blog Atomic Insights, a good addition to any reading list devoted to the subject of nuclear power. The second is this retrospective at AvLeak about the history and current state of missile defense. Check 'em out and consider how close we are to solving huge problems that plague our society, if only we could have decent leadership.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:52 AM
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