How to Get Out of Denial Without Going Straight to Acceptance

acceptance would be where we live in an era of limits. That's sort of the Republican view, I guess. It's always very optimistic that you can change it with just one or two policies. We've gone from landlines to peak bulky cell phones, to iPhones and what, 25 years. So why could we do the analogous thing in space exploration, the defending ourselves, energy production, medicine, transportation, medicine?