I used to love this McLuhan quote until someone pointed out the flaw. “In our electric age it is knowledge that supersedes experience. It is knowledge that got us to the moon not experience.” The flaw someone pointed out to me was if knowledge supersedes experience then explain all the German rocketeers who worked for NASA.
Paperclip was only one operation that’s been declassified. Many more existed. It was hardly to do with simply the rockets.
The U.S. installed Nazis in North American education, science, and academia. Nazis were installed through South America giving us the drug cartels today.
My family knew some of those German scientists when we lived in D.C. My parents were friends with a couple who came here from Germany (the wife) and Austria(the husband). They were part of a German ex-pat community there. They were all very nice, even jolly. But no one talked about who they had been.
I used to love this McLuhan quote until someone pointed out the flaw. “In our electric age it is knowledge that supersedes experience. It is knowledge that got us to the moon not experience.” The flaw someone pointed out to me was if knowledge supersedes experience then explain all the German rocketeers who worked for NASA.
The best thing is knowledge AND experience.
They called it Operation Paperclip because they literally placed a paperclip on the personnel files of the more ‘problematic’ scientists.
Paperclip was only one operation that’s been declassified. Many more existed. It was hardly to do with simply the rockets.
The U.S. installed Nazis in North American education, science, and academia. Nazis were installed through South America giving us the drug cartels today.
We probably wouldn’t have beaten the Russians to the moon without Von Braun.
My family knew some of those German scientists when we lived in D.C. My parents were friends with a couple who came here from Germany (the wife) and Austria(the husband). They were part of a German ex-pat community there. They were all very nice, even jolly. But no one talked about who they had been.
Thank you. Great article.