Politics and Space

[unspeakablehorror]

One thing that causes me a great deal of apprehension is that the people who have the most power over how resources for space science are allocated tend to see space as a tool for them to dominate the rest of humanity, whereas a lot of the people I've encountered who actually would like the world to be a better place and are concerned with the politics of how to achieve that think space is something we should ignore until and unless we've actually fixed our other problems.  I think both of these mindsets are bad, and I think the interactions between these mindsets are going to have bad results.