The thing is, if we begin to consider improving the lot of the masses not only as something desirable, but as the most desirable endeavor, this improvement will keep us busy for the whole of eternity, and the Underground Men foretold by Dostoevsky will arise before we're done.
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But luckily, like capitalism, this concern for the masses depends on a set of contingent phenomena which will probably go away in the next few hundred years.
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The argument is not one against discovery, but one of doubt over there being anything to discover. This seems both "reasonable" and hubristic at once
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Space is too spooky. It's not even comparable to Marco Polo's long trek across Asia to Xanadu.
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"in space, no one can hear you whine"
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