August 11, 2024
Lest We Forget
Michael Smith
There have been a couple of important insights published this past week about the rising incompetence in our institutions, reminding us that civilizations simply forget how to do things, especially when those things are done by "somebody else" and smaller and smaller groups are trusted with the knowhow.
Boeing is a recent example. Not much use for an airplane company that has forgotten how to build aircraft. There is a difference between reading about how to build an aircraft and actually having the knowledge and skill to build one.
Elon Musk said. "Just like the Egyptians forgot how to build pyramids, we may forget how to build spaceships. So, we should build the spaceships and make life multiplanetary while it is possible."
History is filled with things we rediscover because earlier civilizations have forgotten them and then disappeared.
Glenn Reynolds' Substack on this is a must read.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds | Substack
substack.com
Tim adds:
Musk said ". So, we should build the spaceships and make life multiplanetary while it is possible."
I agree. But why is it there is so much resistance to doing that?
For starters, if we do we forever break the power of the internationalists. Their whole one world scheme is predicated on the idea that there will be no safety valve, no way to get away from them and live and think freely. So they oppose it bitterly. Sadly even some good conservatives have fallen for the "why waste money in space" line. Why? It's not wasted. There are unbelievable resources in space. The Ruling Class knows that but their power is derived from their money and it is control of resources that gives them both. New, inexhaustible sources of wealth destroys their dreams of world socialism.
And most money spent on space is spent ON EARTH, and mainly in R and D.
I would point out we actually cannot build the Saturn V again. We THREW AWAY THE SPECS. It would have to be reverse-engineered if we wanted to use it again. That is an example of forgetting what we once knew - to our detriment.
There have been a couple of important insights published this past week about the rising incompetence in our institutions, reminding us that civilizations simply forget how to do things, especially when those things are done by "somebody else" and smaller and smaller groups are trusted with the knowhow.
Boeing is a recent example. Not much use for an airplane company that has forgotten how to build aircraft. There is a difference between reading about how to build an aircraft and actually having the knowledge and skill to build one.
Elon Musk said. "Just like the Egyptians forgot how to build pyramids, we may forget how to build spaceships. So, we should build the spaceships and make life multiplanetary while it is possible."
History is filled with things we rediscover because earlier civilizations have forgotten them and then disappeared.
Glenn Reynolds' Substack on this is a must read.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds | Substack
substack.com
Tim adds:
Musk said ". So, we should build the spaceships and make life multiplanetary while it is possible."
I agree. But why is it there is so much resistance to doing that?
For starters, if we do we forever break the power of the internationalists. Their whole one world scheme is predicated on the idea that there will be no safety valve, no way to get away from them and live and think freely. So they oppose it bitterly. Sadly even some good conservatives have fallen for the "why waste money in space" line. Why? It's not wasted. There are unbelievable resources in space. The Ruling Class knows that but their power is derived from their money and it is control of resources that gives them both. New, inexhaustible sources of wealth destroys their dreams of world socialism.
And most money spent on space is spent ON EARTH, and mainly in R and D.
I would point out we actually cannot build the Saturn V again. We THREW AWAY THE SPECS. It would have to be reverse-engineered if we wanted to use it again. That is an example of forgetting what we once knew - to our detriment.
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