Elon Musk has told a tragic and hilarious story about his run-ins with the government when he was trying to get SpaceX in the air. It’s the kind of thing that explains why America’s greatness is slipping, and the world will suffer for it.
In her relatively short lifespan compared to the world’s other nations, America has generated an extraordinary number of new ideas or refinements on old ideas. This explosive creative energy has rescued humankind from the stagnation of the old world. And yes, the beauties of the old world as much as the next tourist, but the reality is that, for the most part, the operating theory was that because what they’d done worked, there was no need to change.
