Full confession: I used to believe in The Mission. :surprised-pika:

To be more specific, I didn't believe in :my-hero: 's The Mission in particular, but I sincerely believed that government gridlock (yep, like I said, liberal take) was making space exploration impossible and that if any meaningful progress was going to be made in my lifetime, it would be by private industry. I wasn't particularly enthralled by any specific billionaire, but I had the cynical/deluded belief that "humanity must become an interplanetary species" and that absolutely everything else came second to that.

How about you, (hopefully) ex-libs of Hexbear?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    When I was in middle/high school I was basically a positivist, I thought the highest truth was the scientific method and that the problems of the world could be understood as a matter of how educated and rational (or not) people were. You could solve problems by simply spreading the correct opinion, and the correct opinion is a thin veneer over verifiable scientific work.

    I had almost this exact same take, and it shames me now.