celestial imperialism

"I want to be an astronaut!"

This statement powerfully sums up what the "modern man" aims to be. The desire to ultimately define the universe as subject to man's willing is so much encapsulated by this desire to conquer the skies. Not only to see it through telescopes or traverse its majestic foreignness, the modern man wants to OWN IT! To leave his flag as if a dog marking his territory.

The discovery of water in the moon simply confirms the possibility of man to inhabit it. Why the need to inhabit the moon? Do we really need to find that it is made of cheese? I am aware of the capacity of rats to deconstruct a trap and attain its cheese, but nonetheless, do you risk your whole life to simply attain that piece of cheese?

You say I'm burdening the event?

How many millions to billions of dollars are spent to fund a single trip to the moon? I am sure that there have been so many trips that needed to fail before this discovery could occur!

Does the end justify the means?

Probably, the end in mind was finding a proper shelter for humanity once the world runs out of its resources.

I wonder what Hannah Arendt will say about this...

But to neglect how many people never got to be persons in the sense that they never experienced the world in which they can participate in the activities which we consider to make us human?

http://irawrites.com/Informationdatafolder/worldinequality.htm

The majority money of the world is spent on military affairs (almost $600B), narcotic drugs ($400B), alcohol ($105B), cigarettes ($50B), computer games ($35B), and pet food ($17B)! These are the top 6 priorities of the world?



Probably this may prove to be more relevant?

The pursuit for that "Archimedian point" to which the moon is providing a possibility of for us to measure what the earth really means for us is relevant only to the point that we get above the dispositions which made us think in the first place to look for an "Archimedian point". Eventually like the earth, the moon will be exhausted of what we consider as "resources". We emerged from the earth and our evolution as a species stems from it essentially and exhausting what from which we emerged might be the worst rebellion we have made against ourselves. Though we can always assert that we can create our artifices of a humane environment in the moon in the event that it can sustain us, ultimately, we are still directed to the basic morality in environmental consciousness and consequently, our accountability to each other.

Sometimes the pursuit of knowledge prevents us to think.

NOW is the time.