Tournament: Golden Desert at UNLV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake NS | Judge: Suma Joshi
The feigned distancing of capitalist governments from the political systems they create and use military power to enforce entrenches the working class with Cruel Optismism
Berlant, Lauren. 2006. "Cruel Optimism"
When we talk about an object of desire, we are really talking about a
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potentialities is the operation of optimism as an affective form (see Ghent).
NASA's space colonization programs also fuel space militarization
Anderson 16 (Jake, "NASA's Propaganda Campaign Wants You to Embrace the Militarization of Space" 4/11/16 http://theantimedia.org/nasa-propaganda-militarization-space/")/CW
(ANTIMEDIA) We've seen quite a bit of NASA in the news recently.
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race could end up like George Clooney's character in Gravity, metaphorically speaking.
Governmental colonization of space causes resource wars and space weapons development
Gagnon 09 ~Bruce K. Gagnon is the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus, "Arms Race in Space", March 19, http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5971~~///CW
NASA was created as a civilian agency with a mission to do peaceful space exploration
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project has now grown to $100 billion and is not yet finished.
Rather than functioning as a leash on rampant capitalistic expansion in space, governmental regulation fuels the neoliberal empire
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)
But the entrepreneurial libertarianism of capitalistkind is undermined by the reliance of the entire NewSpace
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as a domain made accessible in legal, technical, and economic ways.
Cruel optimism in capitalistic institutions masks their flaws and ensures that meaningful revolution will never happen. Reject discourse that establishes that optimism
Berlant, Lauren. 2006. "Cruel Optimism"
"Cruel optimism" names a relation of attachment to compromised conditions of possibility.
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of which keep one in proximity to the scene of desire/attrition.
Alternative text: Reject the affirmative as a means of refusing complicity with capitalism.
Rejecting capitalism is key to opening up new alternatives. Only complete refusal, not piecemeal reform, can prevent otherwise inevitable slavery and extinction.
Herod, 04 (James, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/4thEd/4-index.htm, Getting Free, 4th Edition
A sketch of an association of democratic, autonomous neighborhoods and how to create it
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. Otherwise we are doomed to perpetual slavery and possibly even to extinction.