This is how the decline of the West was forged: "Before we went to the moon; now we make films about space"

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Ross Douthat was

born 10 years after the human being stepped on the Moon for the first time, so he could not hear Neil Armstrong's words live when he left his mark on the surface of the satellite.

Nor did he participate in the collective excitement that tickled the United States after the success of

Apollo 11

.

However, like any of the compatriots who did experience those experiences, the

New York Times columnist

and former executive of

The Atlantic

recalls what such a

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