I honestly don’t have a clue what you’re trying to say.
But at literally every point in human achievement, there have been more pressing “issues” to solve.
“Lewis and Clarke? Fools. They’re using slave-labor to harvest crops and these two idiots tame off into the wilderness in land already inhabited? BALDERDASH!”
Fighting a war in Vietnam, but we were trying to go to the moon.
I’m already bored. I can go on and on.
Billionaires in space. It’s their money. Good for them, ultimately good for us because if you want to wait for NASA to make space flight a regularity without an assist by private ventures, you’re going to be waiting a long time.
It might be hard for you to understand my standpoint. And that's too bad, but ok. I'm thinking about this from a whole different perspective. From my perspective, the reason Lewis and Clarke were
commissioned to go into the wilderness was not
balderdash at all. Rather, it was very base and typical greed and irresponsibility; likely very much the SAME superficial reason why you and many others now unquestioningly
assume it's just fine to rocket off into space.
Hard for me to imagine 1541
@Derg as one of Coronado's eager henchmen. Even harder for me to imagine 1619 Derg as a loyal deck hand on the São João Bautista on it's journey from Angola to Mexico. But, given your position now, that's right where you'd have been back then.
Unbalanced, uncontrolled, unmediated growth is cancer (alternatively, on the macro-level called famine, or pestilence, or war). Every single time.
We have everything we need right here, if we only choose to recognize it. We can have paradise on earth, if we only choose to craft it. We possess the divine spark; It's our choice to use it or to cower and stick with our baser instincts.
Do you have such a low opinion of humanity that you actually believe we will not overcome?
Running away from one's problems is never a sustainable way to solve one's problems. It's no solution at all; it's just running away and spreading the problem.
We possess the choice.
We need not act like locusts.
More is not better.
Enough is plenty.
