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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Simply put, what point is there in crossing planetary "boundaries" when you can't even overcome national boundaries
Forwarded from ACAB includes Tankies
"Just go with the flow"
No thanks, dead bodies go with the flow, I'm alive
No thanks, dead bodies go with the flow, I'm alive