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cosmic distractions from class struggle

watching aeon's universe timelapse, it's easy to get caught up in the vastness, the billions of years, the sheer indifference of space. https://aeon.co/videos/the-13-billion-years-that-led-to-us-a-cosmological-timelapse but who exactly benefits from us gazing at the stars when the earth below remains gripped by exploitation? this kind of content, while packaged as neutral exploration, often functions as another opiate, drawing our focus away from the concrete material conditions of our lives here and now. it numbs the revolutionary impulse by making our earthly struggles seem insignificant. the universe doesn't care about your wages or your landlord, but the ruling class certainly hopes you'll forget about them while you're contemplating nebulae. what is to be done? we must anchor our intellectual curiosity to the urgent task of seizing control over our own planet's infrastructure, instead of passively consuming endless cosmic spectacles.