The modern left is melting down over a new white supremacist threat, but it’s not one that can be found in this world. The new threat of interplanetary colonization represents the newest form of Western Christian imperialism! Leftist lunacy is boldly going where no man has gone before!
– Russia and China are collaborating on a nuclear-powered lunar base.
– Western academics, like Mary Jane Rubenstein, criticize space exploration as Western imperialism.
– Archeofuturism, proposed by Guillame Faye, envisions blending ancient traditions with modern technology.
The geopolitics of space is becoming an increasingly important part of international relations. It was recently announced that Russia and China are teaming up to put nuclear power plants on the moon. It’s being widely reported that the two countries are collaborating on the International Lunar Research Station, a massive complex on the moon that, when completed, will be larger than any Disney theme park and will be powered by nuclear energy. If modern leftists in the West have their way, the United States will not be competing with Russia and China anytime soon.
A number of woke academics of late are sounding the alarm on what they consider to be a renewed awakening of Western Christian imperialism in the form of interstellar colonization. A recent report by NBC News featured a professor from Stanford University who is making the argument that the space race isn’t about American ingenuity or invention, it’s rather driven by the impulse to colonize.
A panel of academics made the argument that space programs designed to actively listen for alien civilizations could be viewed as eavesdropping or even unwarranted and illegal surveillance. All of that appears to pale in comparison to the latest thesis coming from a professor.
Mary Jane Rubenstein, a professor of Wesleyan university’s feminist, gender, and sexuality studies program, is making the argument that our latest efforts at reaching for the stars reflect a new chapter in the history of European Christian imperialism. Rubenstein is proposing that our current explorations into space reflect our past colonial practices, such as the “exploitation of environmental resources and the destruction of landscapes, all in the name of ideals such as destiny, civilization and the salvation of humanity.”
The factors that drove European Christian imperialism between the 15th and 19th centuries which are now reappearing in high-speed, high-tech forms. This professor stigmatized Western Christianity while lauding other faiths and the supposed passivity of their cosmic theology. She cited Navajo leadership that has asked NASA not to bury cremated human remains on the moon because they see the moon as sacred. Kanaka elders were calling on scientists to stop putting satellites on the sacred volcano of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
This professor’s juxtaposition between Christianity, which she disparages, and these indigenous religions, which she lauds, continues to separate what an increasingly post-secular world is joining together. Ironically, this professor is advocating the very science-religion dichotomy that was the hallmark of the very Western colonialist imperialism she so passionately decries. She is inadvertently imposing on our astropolitics, a dichotomy between tradition and technology that more cultures are rejecting.
This begs the question of this professor: who’s the real imperialist here? However these thorny issues get worked out, what is clear is that we are entering into a future that blends together ancient civilizational traditions with space-age technology. Scholars are calling this archeofuturism! In the 1990s, a book was published by French scholar Guillame Faye on archeofuturism. Faye argued that the modern globalist world, rooted in the excesses of secular technology and mass industrialization, was provoking a crisis of meaning that made it unsustainable.
He theorized that as the myth of unending progress inevitably wanes, future populations would increasingly return to what he called their archai, or their ancient wisdom, virtue, and traditions that have sustained their identities as unique people groups for thousands of years. Faye recognized that our technological advances would not slow down, so he saw a future where tradition and technology would learn to live side-by-side.
The Russian Orthodox Church features public consecrations of spacecraft that have been broadcast on Russian national television. Sacred relics have traveled with Russian cosmonauts into space, who have processed holy icons all around the earth. This is all considered to be an extension of the Genesis Dominion Mandate, where Adam and Eve are commissioned by God to exercise dominion throughout the whole of creation, which many Christian thinkers envision as involving the whole of the cosmos.
Russian Cosmism, one of the most influential philosophical schools to come out of Russia, is a very bold and visionary theology of interplanetary travel. A number of studies have shown that eastern religions are particularly fascinated with space travel, especially Hinduism. Ancient sacred myths of interplanetary space travel are increasingly being realized by science in service of these sacred aspirations. While woke leftists may be desperately trying to cling on to the science-religion dichotomies of liberal globalist imperialism, a new world is rising that is reawakening the religions of old with the technologies of today to explore new frontiers of the future.
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