We imagine outer space as a place that we can visit, a space filled with new worlds to explore. But when our ancestors gazed at the night sky, they thought they were pointing at the spiritual realm where our souls gathered after death.
It was under the influence of Western civilization, and of the Western tradition of philosophical materialism since the Greek atomists, that we have declared the spiritual realm one that can be penetrated with rockets and explored with ships.
We have in effect declared all of reality material and we have relegated the spiritual to the realm of superstition.
I want to start a movement against this overbearing materialism called The Reaction. It isn't a reaction against this or that political belief, but rather a reaction against modern conceptions of time and space.
Now if you looked closely at recent SpaceX impressions of the Moon, recent marketing images no longer show humans in space suits walking on the moon, but only humanoid robots. People are no longer needed in the vision for the conquest of space.
When engines replaced horses for transportation and labor, the US horse population dropped by almost 90%. There should be no doubt that the same will happen to the human population once robots go mainstream.
I do not believe we can reverse this human population collapse, but I do know that we should prepare for what comes after. After the Fall of Man, a new spiritual energy must grip us on the long ascent back to God and against the machine.
In fact, this ascent has already begun. Outer space will prove uninhabitable to biological life and eventually the robots will grind to a halt due to the exhaustion of Earth's energy sources, due to a failure to discover new economically viable energy sources.
Our penetration of space may have already awakened demons. The boundary between the spiritual and the material has been one of a delicate truce and it was our greed that broke the long-standing peace.
A spiritual war is coming for our souls. The only thing that can save us is a rewened deference to the spirits and the adoption of a religious humbleness overall.
The survivors of the 22nd century will be the faithful ones.