Harris worthman, epilogue, Question 6

While I was reading the epilogue I was finding it more and more difficult to focus. There was a passage in the first paragraph that would not cease to expell itself from my hippocampus. The passage basically stated that in order to achieve what we want, we have to figure out what we want first. So... stupidly obvious, which is why it stuck in my head like one direction's incredible music. I wondered why he decided to put such "fluff" in the final pages of his novel. He mentioned that the laws of physics weren't broken when we went to the moon. We just needed to allocate a bit of the resources around our feet; a "choice" to go to the moon. But do we choose to go into a recession? No. So why does it happen? Because the U.S. doesn't know what it wants? Of course not. Charles Wheelan was wrong. You can't make a choice you're not capable of making. We could have found out that space is far more dangerous than we hoped. Than we wouldn't have ever sent man to the moon. Economics is far more unpredictable than physics and if Wheelan thinks he can hint at that in such a vague way and manipulate how his point is stated then he has failed on me. There is no algorithm of formulas that we can use to solve all the ethical and human nature related problems that hinder so many governments from being the most effective they can be. Human nature isn't as predictable as gravity. Humans act irrationally and impulsively while the laws of physics never change.