Perhaps the idea of Mars as a bug out location started as a joke, but a few people took it serious. Then the horse was out of the barn.
A generation growing up with Start Trek and Star Wars as their bible was told how wonderful they were just because the universe was graced with their presence. They succumbed to narcissism and the idea they could make reality to be anything they wanted just by thinking it so.
Child psychologists in the century of the self failed to appreciate that narcissism is the easiest disease of all to catch. The virus is mental, and in the case of a mental virus, masks enhance infection. Masks do not slow it down as they do for covid. Transmission is virtual.
QuoteSmall Wish Came True Quickly.
To be honest, I have not been practicing the law of attraction for many years although many of my wishes did come true. I probably did apply it without knowing it. Now suddenly, I have the urge to restart it again because something is calling me to do it. Things are happening for a reason, <= an idiot

Look I can fly, whoopoie. I can do anything I want. I am special critter.
Mars is a thought-stopper. Talk of Mars is guaranteed to stop any serious discussion of our future. Try to talk to me about Mars and I will get inarticulate and mumble. Frustration and despair will grip my soul. I will be unable to grasp how you can be so stupid, and that you were actually allowed out of school.
QuoteIt is good to renew one's wonder,' said the philosopher.'Space travel has again made children of us all. <= The opening lines of The Martian Chronicles
Now we are children who can't tell real from false. Mars is a way for the stupid to control the smart. Mars is a wild tangent.
Basic manipulation from the book of slave management. A book Musk has read.
