{"id":57724,"date":"2021-05-08T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57724"},"modified":"2021-05-08T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T15:36:58","slug":"space-colonization-is-a-capitalist-perception-management-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57724","title":{"rendered":"Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/05\/07\/space-colonization-is-a-capitalist-perception-management-op\/\">Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9903\" class=\"post-9903 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-bezos tag-colonization tag-earth tag-humanity tag-mars tag-musk tag-space\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-4.jpg?fit=720%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-4.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-4.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"443\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/space-colonization-is-a-capitalist-perception-management-op\"><em>Listen to this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1044544489&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/gXdjj\">are in a dispute<\/a>\u00a0with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion US government contract to return to the moon. I gleaned this annoying piece of information by way of an obnoxiously sycophantic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/05\/elon-musk-spacex-starship-launch\/618781\/\"><em>Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0puff piece<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cElon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing\u201d, subtitled \u201cFrom his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality\u2014whatever the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream press cannot get enough of these two unfathomably wealthy plutocrats and their outspoken ambition to colonize space, with Musk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/08\/21\/the-oligarchys-plans-for-our-future-keep-getting-dumber\/\">advocating Mars colonization<\/a>\u00a0and Bezos preferring to ship us all offworld to live in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/05\/12\/bezos-reveals-his-ugly-vision-for-the-world-hes-trying-to-rule\/\">giant Amazon space tubes<\/a>. They love it for the same reason they love war and status quo politicians: it fits in beautifully with the capitalist world order.<\/p>\n<p>Space colonization is largely a capitalist perception management op promoted by the likes of Musk and Bezos to strengthen the narrative that it\u2019s okay to continue the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/12\/29\/the-unspoken-premise-of-modern-capitalism-is-that-the-world-will-be-saved-by-greedy-tech-oligarchs\/\">world-raping global capitalist<\/a>\u00a0principle of infinite growth on a finite world because we can escape the catastrophic ecological consequences of that paradigm by fleeing to space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEcocidal capitalism is fine, we\u2019ll just go to space before it kills us!\u201d is the message we\u2019re all meant to absorb. And too many do. A large obstacle to waking people up to the existential crises we are facing as a species is the blind faith that technology will save us from the consequences of our mass-scale behavior, and therefore we don\u2019t need to change. Which suits the world\u2019s richest men perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op Listen to this article: The world\u2019s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos\u00a0are in a dispute\u00a0with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[17039,111,19026,5096,15811,14545,31192,1302],"class_list":["post-57724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-capitalism","tag-ecocide","tag-elon-musk","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-narrative-control","tag-space-colonization","tag-status-quo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57725,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57724\/revisions\/57725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}