JUST IN TIME, AS THE SHIRTS WERE GETTING QUESTIONABLE: Reaching Pluto, and the End of an Era of Planetary Exploration. “On July 14, we are to clear the last of the big hills. After a journey of nine and a half years and three billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft is to go past Pluto, once the ninth and outermost planet, the last of the known worlds to be explored. This is the beginning of the end of a phase of human exploration. The crawling-out-of-our-cradle-and-looking-around part is over. . . . It’s hard to write these words and know what they might feel like 50 years from now. I never dreamed, when Apollo astronauts left the moon in 1972, that there might come a day when there was nobody still alive who had been to the moon. But now it seems that could come to pass. How heartbreaking is that?”

The heartbreak of reorganizing a society as a welfare state. You know, bad luck.