Space is at big place people. And I’m just starting to get my little third grade head around it. Space has been around for a long time out, but he’s been to Desk Trap. And if we are plunging the infinity of space, well, we might drown under the foundations of how we depict the cosmos. There’s a notion called space madness and it’s seen in 2001 of Space Odyssey. Narrative begins to picking a clean orally future space travel that would have been comforting to its late 60s audience. And both the film and the novel, these early species are facade of the year of fathomability, of concealing the gaping wall of the unfathomable. Each, the deeper you descend into the story, the clear it all becomes is the artificial gravity and neatly divided meals amount to a futile attempt to give water to a chaotic universe like space itself. Thousand one ultimately proves a Menson impenetrable feeling, like something the Minam wasn’t fully meant to encompass. Kuberks like that. In fact, my dad made a film about Kubert called Killing Cooper, put the cat counterpoint to the vases existed.
Andre Tokowsky’s film Solaris, Australia, psychologists sent to a research station where all the crew members have become trapped within their own memories. And Solaris is technically another tail. Space born madness people. But she doesn’t want spans from the dawn of humanity to the nebulous future stage of revolution and scale salaries. And it’s intensely personal, kind of on the other side of it. And despite primarily taking place in space, the film, like the characters, constantly flashes back to small, intimate elements on earth, far from the story of humanity’s Ascension.
Solirus makes the case that the maddening paraphrase has less to do with stories and what to do with the trauma we carry with us is dark like a preserved photograph, the past lingers, both studying has an anchor and being a crushing weight. Seeing time, it’s say, yeah. Oh, I guess it’s a contradiction in terms.
In the vast face of a different universe decide what amounts to which worthy. After a while, does that film that forces you to confront this question over and over again actually to games you plays an alien exploring the cosmos in a worrying low tech spaceship. And the main thing you do in out and while this is wait, oh, you die. It’s kind of sad. In the game, you see why space is so nightmare and every failure is an opportunity. You need to learn from your mistakes, you know?
Oh yeah, that’s, you know, that’s, it’s kind of late and that’s kind of heavy. I mean, again, I’m only a third grade. I don’t think I should be contemplating such profound notions, you know? I mean, I should be thinking about, I don’t know, you know, SpongeBob or maybe Rick and Morty and, you know, fighter of a chocolate milk and peep J with the crust cut off. What am I talking about? It’s yum. I’m just so tired. I had so much homework tonight, but I’m gonna get through this. Okay, so what’s my point?
Okay, so you think about killing Kubrick and being the film that explains how Cool brick filmed and faked the fake moon landing, how he faked it, why he faked it, the political pressures involved of, in enforcing him, frankly, to do it. They did a Faustian deal he made with the devil of sorts. How he succumbed to his own weaknesses and ego and avarice.
At Shakespeare and Greek mythology have nothing on this story. And I don’t even mean to sound arrogant or like I’m facetious. I’m serious, okay? This is a story of my authorship. This is a story that was authored by the most powerful civilization in history, America, currently. I mean, there may be better ones and bigger ones later, but for now, word No. 1. I think bigger than realm and bigger than, you know, Russia and it’s heyday and bigger than, well, we are a pound for pound, the biggest power ever in a sovereign nation says it within that context, if part of what got us there to that level of respect and in the world community to that level of political yo power, frankly, the ability to push people around, which is a big, it’s a big deal to do that in your everyday life if you have a community of friends and colleagues and if you can push people around, you might be an , but you’ll go foreign life cuz this per capitalist society is built for that. You know, nice guys finish last in this system. So my point isn’t be that I, you know, you have this essentially.
Oh, now I’m spaced out again cuz I just thought about how I do have a quiz tomorrow in history. Hold on, let me go see what I. Okay. So, so as I just said, you know, on the playground, you know, you know, Billy Jim, Jimmy Martin, he’s a bunch of kids in my class. She’s a big guy and he pushes a lot of the smart kids around. And guess what? The girls in my class love him. Even the teachers like him. The coaches love him cuz they think he’s gonna be a big player when he’s in eighth grade stuff. Okay, he said he’s a creepy bully. Okay, now hope I’m not covering the mic. He’s a horrible guy.
Now some writ large is the idea that America, through its winning of the Cold War, through its dominance over the Soviet Union, its biggest rival, through its achievement of winning the the as a capitalist competitor and beating the communist competitor in the game known as, you know, who runs the world. We pull all that off. Somebody was a military are luck or to military, you know, opportunism. Some of it was political and and and intelligence and espionage moves that worked by a huge part of that success. And not only that a success, but maintaining that success perpetuate net success because, you know, power is like money. It’s an illusion and it only exists and has power if enough people believe in it. Okay, it that’s simple. Okay. And so the fact is that America earns its bones, so to speak, but when it did something so ridiculously impossible, even for that time, it was impossible already. I wasn’t born when it supposedly happened. I’m 50 something, okay, I wasn’t born. And here I am with, yeah, gray hairs on my beard. And kids are just, you know, graduate to college and guess what? We are no closer getting to the moon. And I’m just that now, you know, tell you everything you need it, you have to go further and deeper into the argument. I mean, we went from, you know, Kitty Hawk and Wright brother and inventing flight, okay? And in a matter of, I think it was, what, 40 years or so at the stage of a rocket tree of nuclear rocketry. Okay, right, brothers, half of the century and nuclear rocket tree.
Okay, now, if that’s the arbiter of, yeah, piecing in terms of technological goal, geometric growth, okay, well, guess why? The next 50 years after that, a bomb, nuclear bomb thing, which, yeah, we just said is the 50 year point. Yeah, well, guess what?
Alright, now we should be flying cars, you know, an AI is certainly cool. I, I give. I, I, that’s appropriate and super futuristic. But guys, we should be living in the cloud city of like thought, like there should be so many crazy things going on and there’s not. We haven’t progressed these. far and fifty years labeler and why will the answer is simply this we fake the moon landing。