I don't quite know if I can put this into words, which, given that I am in fact a wordsmith, is a bit of an admission of some kind, or perhaps simply a recognition of the enormity and importance of the moment.
There are men who are iconic, who are legendary, who are emblematic of something that, in my opinion, is all too obviously fading from our modern lives.
Men who BUILD SHIT. Men who GET STUFF DONE.
Carroll Shelby. Chuck Yeager. Steve McQueen. Richard Branson. Men like that.
Neil Degrasse Tyson talks about the failure of imagination in American society, how our abandonment of space has put a de facto end to the NEXT generation of engineers and physicists and adventurers and doers. How it's made our future smaller to the point of nonexistence.
And everytime we lose someone like Caroll Shelby . . . I am reminded of that. We'll not see his like again soon. And we shall be all the poorer for it.
~Boar