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July 10, 2010
Challenge Of The Spaceship: Spaceflight As It Should Have Been And As It Was
Planetary exploration, that last great endeavor of what Oswald Spengler called Faustian Culture – the spiritual movement that built the great cathedrals of Christian Europe and that invented science and technology – is dead.
On its tomb we see rise the social-welfare “nanny state,” multiculturalism, affirmative action, Gaia-worship, the entertainment industry, and an education establishment nationalized, feminized, and purged of intellectual rigor so as to make room for insipid self-esteem and the cultivation of homey errands that (how to put it?) teenage girls can do. Contemporary society, like the teenage girl, takes interest in itself primarily, in a preening and thoroughly petty way. The postmodern social order dresses women up as soldiers, it puts them in dangerous aircraft as pilots, and it even sends some of them on Shuttle missions, but it lacks the outward urge of the true pioneering spirit. The de-spirited dhimmi-polity meanwhile cozies up to Stone Age barbarians but refuses to rebuild its own fallen towers ten years after they fell. -- Thomas F. Bertonneau | The Brussels Journal
Posted by Vanderleun at July 10, 2010 3:17 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Are there any Western politicians who can see the future and dream big dreams anymore? Or have they all become wizened, scrawny little moles who dig downward to enrich themselves and tie all the rest of the people down with their slimy little thoughts and regulations.
It looks like China, Japan, and India will be the space powers and explorers for the next few centuries.
Posted by: St. Thor at July 10, 2010 4:11 PM
That's a good article.
The malaise and lack of direction that have plagued our space program since the 70s, or even the 60s if you count the cancellation of the nuclear rocket program, go much deeper than the Obama administration.
As is the case in our society generally, Obama is a symptom, not the cause.
Posted by: rickl at July 10, 2010 11:15 PM
We sacrifice our scientific and technological future so the indolent can have the trappings of a middle class existence without any effort or sacrifice on their part. This ensures a steady stream of votes to those in power whose own skills would not qualify them for dog catcher.
Posted by: wildman at July 11, 2010 5:57 AM