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In past ages, man would look up into the sky at the myriad of celestial bodies God placed in the heavens for his enjoyment, and he would remember his own finitude.
In our day, man looks into the sky and sees his own fetishes reflected back at him.
Recently the organization which launched the space age has taken a strong dose of the spirit of the age, and the results were predictably terrible.
NASA released a “pride month” themed social media post last week which displayed a “progress pride flag” made of various colored pictures from outer space.
The federal space agency used an image of a solar flare for the blue, an image of a cluster of stars for the red, an image of Mars for the orange, and so on.
Even space is gay now.
NASA used to send man to the Moon. Now NASA sends man into the women’s restroom.
This pandering from NASA was rendered even more pathetic since SpaceX, the private rocket company led by entrepreneur Elon Musk, successfully reached a massive milestone just days earlier. They managed to test their Starship and Super Heavy Booster, with both reentering the atmosphere and simulating vertical landings over the ocean surface.
That rocket flew nice and straight.
Unlike NASA.
The contrast between these two spacefaring organizations shows the duality of man.
On one hand, SpaceX shows how man has an instinct to explore the world and unlock her secrets, even when those secrets stretch far beyond our own planet.
On the other hand, NASA shows how man has an impulse to be curved inward on himself, seeing everything else around him as a means to satiate his own desires.
One elevates the souls of man. One denigrates the souls of man.
The entire “pride month” agenda does the latter: nature itself becomes nothing but an obstacle to overcome and raw material to be bent into the unnatural.
The post from NASA, in a silly Uncle Sam fashion, does exactly that.
