![But space was a sterile environment…to explore space was to clear the way for no one, to be cut off from a society that had no real investment in following. Nor was space a place of initiation, of virile secrets, of masculine transformation. There was no one to learn from or fight. It was a void that a man moved through only passively, in a state of almost infantile regression. The astronaut was a dependent strapped to a couch in a fetal position, bundled in swaddling clothes. He made it through space only by never breaking the apron strings of mission control back on Mother Earth. An astronaut returned from space unchanged by the experience, because there was no experience. - Susan Faludi, Stiffed: The Betrayal of The American Man
[Of course, the quote above is taken out of context of what Faludi was speaking about in the book, and is not to be a negative stance against space travel. Merely that there is nothing to conquer in space, hence the lack of funding. Space exploration is far more interesting in my opinion.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liqyqa2CoL1qa9jz4o1_500.png)
But space was a sterile environment…to explore space was to clear the way for no one, to be cut off from a society that had no real investment in following. Nor was space a place of initiation, of virile secrets, of masculine transformation. There was no one to learn from or fight. It was a void that a man moved through only passively, in a state of almost infantile regression. The astronaut was a dependent strapped to a couch in a fetal position, bundled in swaddling clothes. He made it through space only by never breaking the apron strings of mission control back on Mother Earth. An astronaut returned from space unchanged by the experience, because there was no experience. - Susan Faludi, Stiffed: The Betrayal of The American Man
[Of course, the quote above is taken out of context of what Faludi was speaking about in the book, and is not to be a negative stance against space travel. Merely that there is nothing to conquer in space, hence the lack of funding. Space exploration is far more interesting in my opinion.]
