With JFK, you start hearing him say it has to be US imperialism on behalf of everybody else for everybody else. That language is basic is almost gone from political rhetoric at this point. Even Donald Trump said in 2020 that we need to go to back to the moon and then to Mars because it is America's manifest destiny to conquer outer space. It's just what America is supposed to do for America.
Paris Marx is joined by Mary-Jane Rubenstein to discuss how ideas that underpinned colonization and Manifest Destiny are now setting the foundation for the billionaire space race and the plan to colonize the cosmos.
Mary-Jane Rubenstein is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. She’s also a Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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