Memories from Peter Diamandis.
For the record, I have a vivid memory of sitting in a meeting with Peter in LA at a meeting on the subject in conjunction with a Space Frontier Foundation meeting around 1994-1995, and when he said that he had been talking to businessmen in St. Louis, I suggested that he suggest to them that the theme should be the “New Spirit Of St. Louis,” in memoriam to Lindbergh.
I’m not claiming that I came up with it first, or that someone else didn’t suggest it to him or them earlier, or that he didn’t come up with it prior — there’s no way to know that, unless Peter has something to say. But I recall it vividly.
I recall a lecture from a linguist one time that explained how the context of which we say things can make statements entirely unique within the recorded history of this human experience. Even something that we say that someone else may have closely approximated before doesn’t necessarily correlate to the context of a given interaction and therefore can make a great many things we say as individuals entirely unique statements out of the history of the whole human experience. I was like, “Man shut up and pass the bong”. j/k *activate patriot act filter*
So, Rand, you’re saying it was seared, seared into your memory, right? 🙂
I keed, I keed!