The rich boys have latched on to space as a way to spend their billions. They want to capture for themselves the “nobility” we attach to exploration. The nobility associated with intelligence, curiosity, invention. They will soar above the levels of competition and greed that define them and make themselves new.
The space boys’ rockets are taking off at a time of terrible earthbound peril. Floods. Drought. Heat. Virus. Variants. We are having a tantrum because the old mantra of “new worlds to conquer” exposes our refusal to live in nature as it is, not what we demand it to be.
Maybe the folly of the boys’ momentary escape will inspire us to make something new of ourselves. I hope so.
Well said Joan
ReplyDeleteYou captured it all in one sentence, Joan: "We are having a tantrum because the old mantra of “new worlds to conquer” exposes our refusal to live in nature as it is, not what we demand it to be."
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