Don't Dream It, Be It

Some great thoughts in this essay (it's mainly about Interstellar, so warning, spoilers), esp. about how the possibility that this planet may be all we get:

Zachary Bonelli - "Perelandrian Dream"

Gene Roddenberry’s ideology, which was that humanity would go to the stars having overcome the colonial impulse, has clearly failed to take root in the popular culture.

I don't think the problem was that space mania didn't take root in popular culture; space mania was pretty big in the 60s and 70s. But...