Who else? Brian O’Leary.
Today is April 1st. My 49th birthday. The establishment decided to celebrate the occasion by rolling out its shiny new Artemis rocket, promising a triumphant return to the moon.
Naturally, the spectacle makes me think of an astronaut. Specifically, the astronaut who beat me to the punch.
Back in 1995, the internet was a lawless frontier. I wanted to stake my claim. I typed in the domain I rightfully wanted: brianoleary.com. No D.
Taken.
By whom? Another Brian O’Leary. Brian Todd O’Leary, to be exact.
He wasn’t some squatter. He was a scientist and a former NASA astronaut selected for a potential manned Mars mission … in the 1960s!
But he didn’t stick to the approved script. The man walked away from the establishment. He looked at the Apollo moon landings, looked at the official narrative, and decided to ask the uncomfortable questions.
He became one of the most prominent skeptics of the entire operation.
Now, I do not have a dog in the Apollo fight. Whether they planted that flag on lunar soil or filmed it on a Hollywood soundstage is entirely irrelevant to my life.
But I admire the sheer defiance. The willingness to take a position outside what my friend Tom Woods calls “the 3×5 card of allowable opinion,” and question the dominant narrative.
That is the sociological divide in America today. You have the unquestioning herd, taking their orders from the technocrats, and swallowing the approved narrative whole.
Then you have the skeptics. The ones who refuse to bend the knee to the puritans and the uplifters.
My domain name was (is still? haven’t checked…) held by a man who refused to play along. I eventually secured my own territory.
Now, as I enter my fiftieth year on this earth, I use it to wage war on the modern absurdities choking the life out of this country.
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