>>395540I don't give a shit if Bezos and friends fulfill their childhood dream of being astronauts, at the end of the day. This is a false conflict in that we are told we are not allowed to have nice things, and we are supposed to scorn the rich for having nice things, rather than scorn the rich for what they actually do. The really damning thing is that private space exploration is a hilarious joke and a waste of money. About the only reason why this would be revolutionary would be if you subscribe to the belief that the 1960s-1970s space exploration programs were entirely made up.
The other really, REALLY damning thing is that our problems at home are deliberately engineered, rather than some accident which "just happens" to exist. The idea that we would live through Obama's austerity and privatization drive would have been seen as a barbaric outrage in the 1960s. They would think Obama was a ruthless dictator for doing what he did. It takes nothing less than the most extreme propaganda / brainwashing offensive in human history to present Obama as a legitimate head of state, or the whole political order of the past decade as anything other than a movement towards fascism. When that wasn't enough, they had to bring out the Gladio ops and Trumpism to kill even more people, for the sake of eugenics and the greed of the new class.
I can, in the end, expect the rich to do what they do. What I cannot forgive or abide is the new class and their behavior throughout this entire ordeal. At every opportunity, they have chosen to side with the most reactionary of oligarchic aims, clamoring to take them further. This is not even for the material advancement of the new class, but because this new class has become a class of the worst cravens and does so because they know nothing else. They have every opportunity to put a stop to this. All the madness we have seen for the past year could come to an immediate halt if the new class, in unison, exercised the power that was granted to them. They refuse to, because at this point, the new class is for me the greater evil than even the oligarchic capitalists. That's just how it is.