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
Renzo Novatore on the antagonistic attitude of Nietzsche et al towards the working class:
— Renzo Novatore,
The Great Brains… in the Time That Turns
If you want to go from the field of the living to the field of the dead, it would be the chance to immediately encounter F. Nietzsche himself, the satanic, playfully destructive philosopher, saturated with desperately and divinely creative, intoxicating poetry, discoverer of the strangest and most original truths of the human mind—well, he himself, I said, when he tried to concern himself with social questions was seized by the same myopia, by that same weakness: which one might call: The ignorance of great men! and in that book of his… Beyond Good and Evil, he sought to create (though under a formula all his own) a certain legislative theory for the use and consumption of a certain aristocracy (which I would call imperialistic) that he invented at the complete and exclusive injury of the people.
And saying that it would be enough that the people went to quench their thirst (oh! if they only had thirst…) at the springs of Nietzschean philosophy to throw it all into the air in an absolute and radical way both in the spiritual realm and in that of this materialistically experienced life of ours… Yes, precisely this, all in the air including his theory of aristocratic (thus not very aristocratic in the libertarian sense) domination!
In this instance Stirner himself seems more noble, more logical, and less cruel to me…
In fact on social questions, if it were granted to me to give advice to the great men, I would say (at least to those who are still living, and who still know how to read) to go back a bit to read that little, but so valuable, booklet that is called The Soul of Man Under Socialism, author Oscar Wilde who is more than one of their peers… But perhaps it is useless to make predictions about this since, alas!, there must be a certain fatality that weighs on all things. Even on the brains of the great men… With all this, however, I can’t yet close this topic without adding something else that is perhaps what matters most. And that is to explain, from my point of view, the psychology of this ugly affair.
It is, I believe, and I don’t just believe, I’m sure, that the phenomenon is explained like this. The great man, by his nature, lives in the world of his own greatness, meaning outside of the life of the people. Two lives, two worlds, two realities, and also two faults, this: that the people still haven’t learned how to become deserving of the name that they bear, that is: real people. The great men that of not having learned how to become truly great. Meaning that they still have to learn to not stick their so keenly delicate nose into the affairs of the people. Politics is a low, vulgar thing, linked to the economy, or rather is the economy itself. Now the economic affair, being an affair of the belly and of the kitchen, is important, indispensable, the most indispensable of all, but an affair for cooks, so not for poets and higher men.
— Renzo Novatore,
The Great Brains… in the Time That Turns