Tag: American history

• Munching on Mars Bars

  As a boy, I munched Mars Bars, read Jules Verne, and dreamed of rockets. Decades later, from Sputnik and Apollo to Elon Musk’s Starships, I find myself asking a different question. Mars may be humanity’s next destination, but the most difficult frontier I encountered was never millions of miles away—it was within.

  RMDell’Orfano

  June 18, 2026

  Autobio

  American history, backyard rockets, Billionaire Bunkers, childhood memories, Elon Musk, Elon Musk burnout Tesla SpaceX decline Prometheus metaphor tech Social media addiction X Twitter Musk critique Ketamine and Asperger’s Musk, From the Earth to the Moon, Goddard, innovation, inward journey vs outer space, Jules Verne, Mars candy bars, Mars exploration, personal memoir, reflections on progress, Robert Goddard, science fiction, Space Race, spaceflight history, SpaceX, Sputnik, Starship, technology and society

• Compensatory Sainthood

  We fund statues, celebrate heroes, and ignore the truth. Why societies create saints—and what it costs when the myth collapses.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 19, 2026

  Politics, Psychology, Religion

  American history, cancel culture, Cesar Chavez, civil rights movement, cultural icons, ethics and society, groupthink, hero worship, historical revisionism, institutional abuse, labor movement, leadership accountability, Martin Luther King Jr, media narratives, moral hypocrisy, myth making, political commentary, political myths, power and corruption, public monuments, public trust, secular sainthood, social justice, social psychology