We will never understand our world until we have come to terms with its future: it is the age in which we live. The Cold War depended upon internal division in order to maintain itself. Behind its various feints, games and strategies lay a perception of behavior as a form of enforced conformity. People would only do what they were prompted to do. This was the thinking that held the lonely crowd together, briefly connecting the forward thrust of material progress with the broader evolutionary curve.

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Ken Hollings, Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America.

Themes

  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power
  • Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world

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