Remember in social studies when you’d look at all the old fascist war propaganda and you thought, wild that people were actually energized by this shit when it was all so transparently cringe
The most dangerous thing about leaving Earth isn’t the vacuum.
It’s the clarity.
When astronauts return from long missions, most talk about the Overview Effect in poetic terms. They describe seeing Earth as fragile, borderless, beautiful.
What rarely gets reported is the second layer of that experience — the part where the beauty curdles into something more disturbing.
Because once you’ve watched the planet from that altitude long enough, the human activity you observe starts to look less like civilization and more like a colony of organisms running programs they never consciously chose. Wars over invisible lines. Cities choking on their own exhaust. Seven billion people sprinting toward goals that were handed to them before they were old enough to question whether they wanted them.
I don’t think the “Big Lie about humanity” he’s describing is some kind of a conspiracy.
It’s something quieter and far more pervasive. It’s the collective hallucination that the world you were handed at birth is the world as it actually is. That the values you absorbed from your culture are the values that exist in nature. That the urgency you feel about status, money, and approval reflects something real about the universe rather than something manufactured by systems that benefit from your compliance.
Orbital altitude strips that hallucination away with brutal efficiency.
Gravity keeps more than your body on the ground. It keeps your perspective locked inside the consensus.
Astronauts who spend months outside that gravity field don’t just lose bone density. They lose the psychological weight of inherited assumptions. And when those assumptions lift, what sits underneath them is a question most humans never get forced to confront in a lifetime.
What would you actually want if nobody had ever told you what to want?
The Big Lie was never about them.
It was always about that question and how hard the entire structure of modern life works to make sure you never stop long enough to ask it.
#BREAKING: The Reds are coming to Dayton.
The Cincinnati Reds and the Dayton Dragons announced today that the Reds will play their final 2025 Spring Training game at Day Air Ballpark on Tuesday, March 25th. https://t.co/pwG6BfrdEA
Here we go again.
No. 4 Penn State:
11-1
Loss to No. 2 Ohio State
Strength of schedule: 32
Strength of record: 4
One ranked win: No. 23 Illinois
No. 5 Notre Dame:
11-1
Loss to unranked, 6-5 NIU
SOS: 78
SOR: 10
One ranked win: No. 20 Texas A&M
Remember kids he was murdered by his fellow soldiers after he started questioning the war, and now the NFL disgraces his memory to use him as a recruiting tool
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In the era of NIL where a lot of players are just going to the highest bidder and have no emotional connection to the school, this type of stuff rocks.