The Space Age has Ended


The final space shuttle has launched. Bid farewell to the Space Age.

As a science fiction reader, I was raised on tales which predicted a future where we first explore, then colonize, the planets.

Those confident predictions were made without factoring in the drag on the world economy and the human spirit of that grotesque philosophy which has no name, but which is sometimes called sometimes Statism, sometimes Antichristianity, sometimes Neo-Barbarism.

They call themselves by a number of flattering names, as Progressive and Liberal and Peace Movements and Liberators of this or that. All such names are lies, the reverse of the truth, because the nameless philosophy seeks neither progress, nor liberty, nor Peace, nor liberation.

Whatever the philosophy is called, it is a very expensive one.

It has finally eaten the seedcorn, and mortgaged our future, and now we cannot make the payments. We have been foreclosed.
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Published on July 08, 2011 22:22
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