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Ant wrote

I'm generalising, but

frontiers like space are mostly just a place for people to project fantasies that are born out of their impotence felt in the face of this terrible world

there's no reason to think it's desirable to go out there beyond a desire to escape this shit
But there's no escape since we'll bring it with us wherever we go
There are cops and states in our heads

(Escapism is fine under many circumstances, don't get me wrong - often it's all we have)

pushing frontiers before we get rid of capitalism is the same as pushing capitalism

and since capitalism created us, shapes our subjectivities and our desires, there's little reason to assume we will or won't want to go to space if we ever manage to destroy capitalism
because we know close to nothing outside of this

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