Escapism, Space, and Digital Space

I am failing to understand our fascination with space and space exploration. We spend inexplicable amounts of money in space when we can make planet earth, our collective home, a much better place.

I view it as a waste and poor management of available resources.

I am all for science and finding new ways to advance our story as a race. However, it seems like we do not care enough to fix our home. We are spending billions to find and start living on a new one.

Since the dawn of humanity, it has been in our coding to move around and look for new homes. Maybe, it is time to settle down for a bit until we are all caught up before we abandon this one.

Digging the rabbit hole:

In a not so different pattern, we tend to lose ourselves in the digging of deeper rabbit holes chasing answers we already possess.

When I think of rabbit holes, I like to think of the thought process that leads majority of people to a common and blasphemous question, “but who created God?”

We can spend years, decades, and eons answering this one question. We can speculate, theorize, and imagine all different scenarios.

The most important thing is finding a fixed starting point and sticking to it; that is your god.

Balance

You cannot go on digging deep without ascending. And you cannot act without thinking, and you cannot think without acting. It is about finding the right ratio of the two to move forward.

We have already weaponized and monetized space. Our space explorations yielded remarkable results in the communications and surveillance fields. Yet, we have not advanced much in other areas outside of clever movie scripts.

The numbers and facts do not lie. The return on investment is not beneficial to the collective.

We ought to limit our budgets on such expenses until there is a surplus to invest in space-cowboy dreams.

We can benefit from redirecting funds to global issues like poverty, hunger, education, equality, health, climate, or our biodiversity.

We cannot walk before we crawl, and we cannot run before we walk.