We are the Moon

Delicious, from Shapiro:

"On Thursday evening, Ryan Gosling made international news when he justified the fact that the new Damien Chazelle biopic of Neil Armstrong will skip the whole planting the American flag on the moon thing. Gosling, a Canadian, explained, “I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement and that’s how we chose to view it.”

It’s telling that the Left seems to attribute every universal sin to America, and every specific victory to humanity as a whole. Slavery: uniquely American. Racism: uniquely American. Sexism: uniquely American. Homophobia: uniquely American. Putting a man on the moon: an achievement of humanity."

 

And these people do not see the irony. The stimulus to this extraordinary accomplishment was nationalism, the anxiety that the Russian program would surpass--and threaten--the United States. Still, Armstrong--and the Americans--tried nobly to share the event symbolically with the world with "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

And the one thing these world unifiers should understand is symbolism.