Cars with tail fins

The expendability of human life seems to be in vouge now, having replaced man's inhumanity to man as the chief motif of serious social discussion and literary practice..

The federal government has determined the net value of one human life is about $10 million. Officials, however, were quick to say that this is the value of "a statisitical life", and is the same number whether you're 2 or 82.

The richest person in the world, an American man named Jeff Bezos, has enough money to give every US citizen above the age of 21 an outright gift of $400k, and still have plenty of money for himself and his offspring.

I wrote critically the other day about the space race and our government's love of launching rockets with real people in them to explore interstellular outposts heretofore unexplored by man. I'd forgotten to mention my chief complaint--that embedded in this effort is a yearning for the nostaigic time when gas was cheap and luxury cars had tail fins and white sidewall tires.