I've seen a lot of people speaking out against space exploration, lately - sometimes people with otherwise healthy minds. How could petty political squabbles assume pre-eminence over conquest & discovery? Has the Spirit at last run its course, reached the term of its period?
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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In Notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky shows a man living solely to spite the world, enjoying his pain against the outside help he'd receive & constantly humiliating himself in public - human freedom making deleterious choices when only good choices are forced upon one.
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