Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 1 | Opponent: WEST DES MOINES VALLEY FM | Judge: Mishra Anshuman
First Things First, the “Giant Leap for Mankind” Mentality falsely groups a collective humanity into the experiences of only wealthy capitalists in order to justify the deregulation of commercial space activity
Holen, Thomas B, and Shammas, Victor L. One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space.Palgrave Communications.1/29/19. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0218-9 .DA=1/25/22.-SVJK)
We have already noted that it is not humanity, conceived as species-being
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space, or ‘astrosociologists' (Dickens and Ormrod, 2007a, 2007b).
The deregulation of commercial space policy entrenches neoliberal reactions and destroy the possibility of a future global commons
Sutch, Peter and Roberts, Peri 2019. Outer space and neo-colonial injustice: Distributive justice and the continuous scramble for dominium. International Journal of Social Economics 46 (11) , pp. 1291-1304. 10.1108/IJSE-03-2019-0152 file
Recent developments in the rhetoric and policy of the United States of America towards outer
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institutions that advance them, both with regards to outer space and elsewhere.
Private sector space innovation fuels government military dominance in space
Werner, Debra. Military turns to private sector for rapid space innovation.10/9/19.Space News. https://spacenews.com/warfare-satellite-innovation-2019/ .DA=2/3/22
“When we put a man on the moon, there were probably 10,
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U.S. government can’t continue to invest at a faster rate.”
Capitalist economies generate fabricated value systems in tension with the devaluing effects of excess. Capitalism then necessitates infinite geographic expansion, without which it will inevitably collapse
Holen, Thomas B, and Shammas, Victor L. One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space.Palgrave Communications.1/29/19. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0218-9 .DA=1/25/22.-SVJK)
A ‘spatial fix' involves the geographic modulation of capital accumulation, consisting in the
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to absorb its overaccumulated capital' (Harvey, 1981, p. 8)
The ending impact of private appropriation of outer space is the immortalizing of settler colonial capitalist economies, ending history with the propulsion of humanity into an eternity of value labor.
Holen, Thomas B, and Shammas, Victor L. One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space.Palgrave Communications.1/29/19. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0218-9 .DA=1/25/22.-SVJK)
Outer space serves at least two purposes in this regard. In the short-
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unfolding, but the starting point of humanity’s first serious advances in space.
The legal framework of global commons is universally preferable.
Sutch, Peter and Roberts, Peri 2019. Outer space and neo-colonial injustice: Distributive justice and the continuous scramble for dominium. International Journal of Social Economics 46 (11) , pp. 1291-1304. 10.1108/IJSE-03-2019-0152 file
Property is a legal construct. There are a variety of ways in which property
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and they continue to be hotbeds of legal, political and normative contention.
A framework of ending Capitalism precludes ethical deliberation. Capital value systems reduce decision-making to economic calculation.
Morgareidge, Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, 1998, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html
To show why this is the case, let me turn to capital's greatest critic
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capitalism is on the table will ethics have a seat at the table.
The role of the judge as an intellectual is to endorse movements seeking to produce truth contributing to the destruction of Neoliberalism.
Wood,David and Medina, Jose.l. Apr 15, 2008.Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions. https://books.google.com/books?id=fsRmQSnLT-kCandpg=PA334andlpg=PA334anddq=It+seems+to+me+that+5BW5Dhat+must+now+be+taken+into+account+in+the+5BThe5D+intellectual+is+not+the+E28098bearer+of+universal+values.E28099+Rather,+itE28099s+5Bis5D+the+person+5Bwho5D+occupying+a+specific+position+E28093++but+whose+specificity+is+linked,+in+a+society+like+ours,+to+the+general+functioning+of+an+apparatus+of+truth.+In+other+words,+the+intellectual+has+a+three-fold+specificityandsource=blandots=07eiVieX6eandsig=1bCI2QExvtx64a2VLbz7Yn3myqsandhl=enandsa=Xandved=0ahUKEwj0mO2K7eTNAhXHSyYKHSTaAGMQ6AEIIjAC#v=onepageandq=It20seems20to20me20that205BW5Dhat20must20now20be20taken20into20account20in20the205BThe5D20intellectual20is20not20the20E28098bearer20of20universal20values.E2809920Rather2C20itE28099s205Bis5D20the20person205Bwho5D20occupying20a20specific20position20E280932020but20whose20specificity20is20linked2C20in20a20society20like20ours2C20to20the20general20functioning20of20an20apparatus20of20truth.20In20other20words2C20the20intellectual20has20a20three-fold20specificityandf=false.DA=7/8/16.-SVJK)
It seems to me that What must now be taken into account
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forms of hegemony, social economic and cultural, within which it operates.
The viewing of this drive to hyper-possess material goods as the de-facto state of nature for humankind is the root cause of environmental degradation, and the dehumanization of persons.
Varma, Associate Professor and Regents Lecturer, School of Public Administration University of New Mexico, 2003 (Roli, Sage productions, “E.F. Schumacher: Changing the Paradigm of Bigger Is Better,” http://bst.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/114, accesed 7/10/08, page 116).
Materialism holds that the world is by its very nature material; the world consists
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“peace and permanence” (Schumacher, 1973, p. 31).