Elon Musk and other money junkies are trashing space – well we’ve already trashed the earth and the oceans…
Yes – haphazard and hazardous and multiplying
satellites and satellite junk in space are literally blocking out the stars
according to astronomers.
And this would be bad if it were for essential
stuff. It’s not. It is so that even more people can troll each other more
efficiently on social media and use Elon Musk’s gadgets. Yes – the ones that
don’t work REUTERS and no one asked for.
The high priests who direct our worship of constant consumerism and
the all-seeing deity of social media are now literally blocking the firmament –
dimming real stars. They are obliterating the heavens so that – astronomers
claim – even things humans might be interested in when they don’t have their
faces in their screens – like dangerous asteroids – may not be visible due to
the glare of the ever increasing and unregulated number of random satellites.
Is the process of turning humanity into an uncritical, cretinous cult
almost complete?
You pay obeisance and enjoy a semi-mindless (uneasy)
sense of being part of things or –
like me – not. And maybe, like me, you have a horrible sinking feeling every time
someone else good humouredly smirks or rolls their eyes indulgently at the fact
you don’t have a smartphone and are not on any social media platforms because –
the fact is – the stars are literally going dim on humanity.
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Talking of rich, entitled white men doing whatever
the hell they want regardless of the good of the rest of us. Check out my
letter in the New European (longish letter near the bottom)
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