2020/06/21 – Rick Levine – A Solstice of Surprises ….

The world has gone crazy. There’s a once-in-a-hundred-years, all-consuming global health pandemic currently raging all around the Earth … which has triggered an unprecedented, world-wide economic shutdown as a direct result — a shut-down enforced, remarkably, across scores of otherwise diametrically-opposing governmental systems …. Or … take the equally sudden, world-wide, multi-racial/multi-cultural political demonstrations now being staged by millions of otherwise “ordinary folks” taking to the streets … each, prompted by the horrifying sight of the slow-motion “last straw” television strangulation of “another black man in America” (a vivid demonstration of the underlying power of “Roddenberry’s Rule”) …. By stark contrast … in a few short weeks, another US spacecraft will once again be leaving for the Red Planet — the “Perseverance” Rover … this time, finally (fifty years after Viking!) carrying instruments capable of publicly confirming CURRENT “life on Mars” … if … NASA let’s it. Tonight, my guests [...]