In the pre space based society the two main outlooks on the meaning of life broke down into distinct and incongruous worldviews.
Those that believed space technology and its correlatives are of no ultimate importance to "life here on earth" were a sort of broad scale convergence of struggles mixed with ennui both unacknowledged and unspoken.
On the other hand the soon to be dominant order of society was extremely outspoken in promoting the grandest leap of technology ever envisioned thereby transforming the individuals as instruments within that mission of the continuous scientific progress.
The financial powers thinking they controlled technology to their own ends were soon disabused of their folly. The insane presumptions that controlling land and resources could compete with technological transformation in the very definition of resources via the thermonuclear fusion MHD space economy.
As interplanetary workforce expands by the dint of necessity, a sort of "trans-human" prototype will emerge. This will hopefully "cleanse" the future of human civilization of non consequential mundane concerns such as inherited land, wealth and titles to standing on this launching pad of a planet.
The very notion of resources will undergo a revolution of a nature analogous to a Cantorian cardinality of transfinite. The earth based survivors of geopolitical machinations whatever their state may be still yet the recipients of such largess of the successor society. Such will function as human resources to be recruited as citizen potential yet bound to earth to the unfolding tasks of ongoing emerging areas of concern in increasingly audacious goals in the conquest of a deeper deployments and habitations in space, in kind and spirit.
NASA Glenn Research
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