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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Any movement starts with the realization of a need. The need to start on the road toward humanity becoming a space fairing civilization is paramount. The movement needs to start 50 years ago, we need to be in overdrive to start the realization of space travel. If we wait to long lack of resources and fear will defeat us. Once we gain a foot hold in space the movement can begin to show it's value by the transfer of resources to the planet and by building more habitats. If it's not done soon society will be drained by the negative influences of war, religion, greed, and apathy.
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As you say, the need is already here---even 50 years ago---but it is still not a part of popular acceptance or belief. It will not and has not sprung up by itself. It needs to be apart of whole world-view and way of thinking. The old indifference survives because our secular belief system is so fragile that it cannot offend or contradict the basic religion, Christianity, the foundation of our ancient society. For example, it is because of Christian Genesis belief in multiplying and populating the earth that one does not hear anything about over-population being the cause of our environmental and pollution problems. It is also why we are in danger of having birth control and abortion made illegal.
You mentioned a movement. What we need is a movement that is "the wave of the future," one that is based on a scientific understanding, an ideology that is advanced and sets the colonizing of space as its major goal. I have been working on just that project for a long time. New such belief systems have arisen in the past and changed the world. It will have to happen again. We will then need to think in a different way than today.
