This faith is what I call "modernism" in my book, and it's the thing I've come to admire the most about mid-century figures I'm otherwise quite critical of. They believed huge, complex things could be understood and organized, and did it. https://t.co/Y6bCxTo3l3

— David Sessions (@davidsess) August 12, 2021

We could do those things again but we probably won’t.

I really liked the scene in Interstellar where the accepted scholarly wisdom was that the moon landing was in fact faked, because no one then could even imagine a civlization could do such a thing. I could totally see that happening and exactly how it would, too.