“One cannot be half a revolutionary and one cannot half-think. It is necessary to be like Ibsen, revolutionary in the most complete and radical sense of the word.”
— Novatore
It is not enough to be an atheist, not enough to be a feminist, not enough to be an anti-casteist, anti-racist and anti-fascist, not even enough to be a socialist or an individualist… to be revolutionary in the complete sense of the word is to be an anarchist.
— Novatore
It is not enough to be an atheist, not enough to be a feminist, not enough to be an anti-casteist, anti-racist and anti-fascist, not even enough to be a socialist or an individualist… to be revolutionary in the complete sense of the word is to be an anarchist.
It's curious, isn't it…
Space exploration is literally an international (even interplanetary etc, ffs) endeavor, something that recognizes no boundaries (especially no national boundaries, which are literally made up). How the fuck do people get patriotic about it, when it's telling them to their face that their patriotism is complete bullshit?
People who are otherwise not even interested in science get all excited when the space mission is of —"their" country… and feel pRoUd. They don't even know or care what the fuck the mission is for.
(Of course it might be a good thing when people get interested in all these things, in astronomy and stuff for example, and I'm against the elitist notion that such stuff should only be exclusive to the "highly educated" etc.
But this is different: the question here is of patriotic madness and hypocrisy.)
Astronomy, space exploration remind us that the countries are all made up, the borders are imaginary.
Another thing is the question of whether such costly (even extravagant) missions are acceptable when there is still rampant poverty.
Some people easily dismiss this question by saying that both are not mutually exclusive. It is of course true that with or without any space missions poverty would still exist; that is because the government wouldn't care about the poor anyway and the system requires poverty to continue to exist; poverty is manufactured and perpetuated by the system.
Nevertheless, one can't dismiss the question so easily and those who do generally don't give a fuck about the poor, which is highly contemptible. Such costly space missions (or any other projects etc) should make us question why there's still so much poverty and should turn us against the system.
Space exploration is literally an international (even interplanetary etc, ffs) endeavor, something that recognizes no boundaries (especially no national boundaries, which are literally made up). How the fuck do people get patriotic about it, when it's telling them to their face that their patriotism is complete bullshit?
People who are otherwise not even interested in science get all excited when the space mission is of —"their" country… and feel pRoUd. They don't even know or care what the fuck the mission is for.
(Of course it might be a good thing when people get interested in all these things, in astronomy and stuff for example, and I'm against the elitist notion that such stuff should only be exclusive to the "highly educated" etc.
But this is different: the question here is of patriotic madness and hypocrisy.)
Astronomy, space exploration remind us that the countries are all made up, the borders are imaginary.
Another thing is the question of whether such costly (even extravagant) missions are acceptable when there is still rampant poverty.
Some people easily dismiss this question by saying that both are not mutually exclusive. It is of course true that with or without any space missions poverty would still exist; that is because the government wouldn't care about the poor anyway and the system requires poverty to continue to exist; poverty is manufactured and perpetuated by the system.
Nevertheless, one can't dismiss the question so easily and those who do generally don't give a fuck about the poor, which is highly contemptible. Such costly space missions (or any other projects etc) should make us question why there's still so much poverty and should turn us against the system.
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