It is humorous to think today of the idea of landing on the moon as fascinating. Now that the once mere aspiration was made into a reality and conquered, the dream now has travelled farther into space than even the moon's first expiditioner, Neil Armstrong, could have possibly imagined. Although, in 1958, the idea was still a dream, and to some such as Eric Sevareid, was objectionable idea. Their argument in objection to "open the ancient vault of the shinging moon" was that the important issue closer to home, not in outer space. Sevareid argued that we should be making evdeavors not into the unkown, but into the human spirit. We are examining the dark sides of th moon when our own darksides is what is in need of examination. The issue is unchanged as it was in Sevareid's day of 1958: unless we advance in discovery of ourselves, advance in technology will be in vain.
Indeed, much has evolved since the Sevareid challenged the idea of travelling to the moon. Today he would possibly be disappointed finding in our history books the date of when we landed on the moon. But his ideas remain a respected topic. It was a new suggestion to cease directing endeavors into the unknown of space and into the unkown of the human spirit. For at the time, technology was just in its beginning stages, but as it evolved, sevareid could only somment that it should be in a derection to shape the development of humankind positively. Otherwise technology's innovations, he feared, would reach further into darkness. .
Still today, even after landing on the moon and new sorts of studies of space done, there is curiosity and anticipation to know the beyond, the darkness. What can't be seen, or the unknown. We see so far, so deep into space, yet as Severeid realized, we still haven't conquered seeing into ourselves. Capturing the full concept of our won unknowns, we may have sent satellites into space farther that the most distant planet of our own solar system, but we have yet to go as far within the twilight of the mind.
