Fifty years ago a human being walked on the moon.
When my grandmother was born there were no cars. Electricity was in its infancy. Airplanes? Inconceivable. Radio? Nope. TV? Not even close. Computers?. Fantasy.
By the time my grandmother died a man had walked on the moon. The technological progress in that one lifetime is almost unimaginable. In my 69 years the advances in science, especially medicine, also have been unbelievable. Other technologies as well.
Political thought? Not so much. The same reactionary forces that dominated politics before World War 1 seem to still be dominant today.
A man walked on the moon. The amazing scientific and technological achievement is hidden in those words. The millions of man hours and trillions of man neurons dedicated to one purpose. One positive purpose. One uplifting purpose. What human beings can accomplish when organized, inspired and allowed to do the job. The unimaginable becomes real.
A man walked on the moon. The moon will never look the same No longer “out there” and unreachable. The moon is now a first step on a possible fantastic voyage into the universe. Like a toddler’s shaky , stumbling walk. And like the toddler it is inevitable that man will fall on his face more than once. Cry. Get up. And wobble ahead.
A man walked on the moon. Every human being can have clean water. Good health care. A decent place to live. A good life.
There were a million reasons why a man could never walk on the moon. Too far. Too expensive. A technological impossibility. Pie in the sky. Unrealistic. Couldn’t be done.
There are a million reasons why we can’t house, clothe, feed and give health care to every human being on the Earth. Until you recall.
A man walked on the moon.
The Old Liberal 
I like this a lot. We can only hope that our next leadership inspires a “We can do this together” appeal to our “better angels” to attack the real problems you cite.
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It is a matter of political will.
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Going to the moon was not that difficult. It was just a matter of solving physical problems. Getting humans to think of themselves as earthlings rather than Christians or Muslins or Jews will require a chemical change in the brain. I don’t see that happening in the next decade.
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I am afraid you may be correct. We do seem t be hardwired (at least many of us) to think in tribal terms. Yet, many do not think in tribal terms, so there is hope.
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