The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race w/ Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Manifest Destiny Language of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler and the agents of national socialism had learned the doctrine of manifest destiny from reading American history. Von Braun was among the people who started using manifest destiny sort of reigniting that Manifest Destiny language in the 1950s. He thought it was incumbent from a military perspective from a political perspective from an economic perspective and even from a theological perspective to head into outer space where he imagined that the US would convert aliens to Christianity just like the Spaniards had converted indigenous Americans.
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