Tin Rockets

It was meant to be 8 days and turned into nine months.

Sounds like me waiting for Hive to go to the Moon.

The astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for almost a year, are finally heading back to earth. I assume the movie is already in the making. One interesting thing to note is that despite the current geopolitical situation, one of the replacements is a Russian cosmonaut - did he have to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the same way all the sports people had to in order to keep their professional careers?

I assume no.

Par for the course.

Inconsistency is the name of the game now, and no matter what is done, people just assume that it is okay, because no one cares anymore. It is like the US government going against a legal court order to put a temporary halt on shipping people out of the country into a maximum security jail. They did it anyway - but where are the ramifications? If a citizen breaks a court order, it is a crime with heavy ramifications. When the government does it, they look to impeach the judge.

Par for the course.

We don't live in an equal legal framework and the "you can do what you want if rich enough" paradigm is being obviously held true. We also don't live in an equal financial framework, because while the average person has to pay all of their taxes and often a bit more, the average rich person has many mechanisms and loopholes available to avoid paying even their legal share, let alone what might be considered a fair share. There is zero chance of improving the wealth gap, unless improvement is considered widening it further.

Apparently - it is.

Have you ever considered that while there might be some avenues available for some people to escape a terrible outcome, what is the way for the average person to be able to live a good life? It seems that the idea of the "pursuit of happiness" has been reduced to continually lowering the bar to be happy, while dealing with increasing amounts of stress and social and economic duress. Sure, it might be one way to go - but is it the way we should be headed as a global society that is supposedly improving its processes and technology?

Are we actually getting better?

I question this heavily. As while we are improving in many ways, the application of the tools isn't to make our lives better, it is for making more profits. This is not the approach of a healthy community or society, it is one of a dictatorship, a ruling class, where the majority works as slaves to maximise the minority. And those who cannot work, are left to fend for themselves. And it inevitably ends one way.

Bloody revolution.

As said, if we were actually improving, we wouldn't be heading in the same direction we have time and time again. Having better tools at our disposal, doesn't mean we are building better houses, and if anything, the literal house quality is degrading, as rather than building for quality and longevity, the same consumer mentality has taken hold and it is about volume and efficiency. Everything is made to be disposable, not last or be repairable - and this thinking has invaded every level of our lives, from what we eat, to how we treat each other.

The mechanism for success in society is generating wealth, and the fastest way to do this is to continually create efficiencies, which ultimately means reducing costs, increasing prices, and lowering quality. This means less people with work, let alone meaningful work, and more cost of living pressures, which reduces quality of experience and impacts on our wellbeing. Our economic practices are fundamentally flawed, because success isn't tied to human growth potential to improve us to be better as a species.

The fastest way to the moon, isn't necessarily the best.

Maybe we are heading into such a catastrophic economic collapse, that we will learn from what we keep doing and go back to the drawing board and plan again - rather than repeat again. However, I highly doubt that we are capable of doing so, because even as people suffer themselves, they still keep fighting for the rights of the elite at the top, just in case they find themselves there one day - or they will be remembered for the scraps that are thrown under the table.