Why is nobody paying attention to this?

[fpb]

I had never even heard it, had any of you? And yet it is since 2007 that Germany had announced the establishment of a purely German space program, separate from the European space agency, and intended to go to the Moon. Now Peter Hintze, the German federal director of aerospace, has announced that Germany plans a mission to the Moon within ten years. One of the many ways in which the world media are corrupt is that they never pay any attention to news like this. There is a meme that Europe is lazy and declining, and that the future is in the Far East. Any news that contradict the meme simply are not publicized. And when German spacemen will in fact be walking on the Moon, everyone will be surprised, not knowing that the program had been widely announced.

(the news was reported by today's Italian Catholic newspaper L'Avvenire)

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

At any rate, that is beside the point. My point was that, whether Europeans conquered them (Mexico and Peru) or not (Japan, China, India, Persia), they went for the organized and civilized communities like flies to honey, and largely disregarded the tribal areas. Even the slave trade with West Africa was carried out with civilized African kingdoms which had been at the centre of their own trading networks for centuries - that is why it existed at all, and why it was economically efficient. The settlement of uncivilized areas, except for Brazil, came much later, and indeed, in the case of South Africa, it was the result of a wholly unplanned and undesired population boom in a harbour that had never been intended as anything but a refuelling station on the way to the (civilized empires of the) Indies.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was agreeing with that, just nitpicking some of the history.