Jeff Bezos wants to take you into SPAAAAAACE!

https://t.co/cN3nzyBCwr pic.twitter.com/uytubJ02ho

— hollywood brett thousand (@BrettThousand) June 7, 2021

This could be excellent fodder for the Punky Brewster reboot.

men will literally go to the edge of space with their brother instead of going to therapy

— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) June 7, 2021

This could be excellent fodder for the Punky Brewster Fantastic Four reboot.

"There's nothing."
"I know. Have a good journey, Mr. Bezos."

the superrich probably have less access to the sublime than the average person, ordinarily. the world feels malleable to them, small. this probably produces a severe sense of despair, you know, the unfathomable loneliness of god and all that, so they are trying to heal themselves by going into space and experiencing a reality that makes them feel small again.

I hear making minimum wage and shopping at the dollar store gives you direct access to the sublime. Like literally downloading Barnett Newman into your optic nerve. You should try it some time.

thoreau thought that poverty helped make one more receptive to aesthetic experience. it's not an insane idea. but i was sort of being semi-ironic. like, i do think it is true that the space thing has to do with bezos feeling dead inside, but also whatever.

or *could* help rather. and maybe not poverty, really -- the brutality of lived poverty -- but simplicity, which is different. either way, i feel like it probably is a little disorienting to wield the kind of economic power bezos does.

Fuck amazon

thoreau thought that poverty helped make one more receptive to aesthetic experience.

treeship badly paraphrasing thoreau isn't the same as what thoreau thought or wrote -- and treesh amplified and corrected his bad paraphrase,

yeah, poverty means living in a state of constant stress and uncertainty. often you have little control over your own life. i wasn't trying to romanticize that sort of condition. but i also think vast wealth, on the order of what bezos has, is corrupting in a different way.

The poor get their rewards in heaven iirc

While for Bezos, heaven is a place on earth.

(By "on," I mean slightly above, looking down with contempt.)

treeship is otm about extremely rich people having no access to spirituality and otm about why bezos is doing this imo. it's also extremely pathetic and funny.

it's not necessarily that the wealthy can't access spirit but that obsession with money/capital/exploitation is incompatible with it.

exactly. thanks map.

I remember an interview with some Japanese shipping magnate who had spent years in a Zen monastery before coming back to run the family business. The interviewer asked him how his spiritual training informed his shipping magnate-ism. The guy said, "Zen is good for many things. But not so much for business."

odd then that spiritual people tend to gravitate toward money/capital/exploitation

o rly

If by "spiritual people" you mean "religious institutions," sure. But that's probably not the best way to define that.

society is sick in a lot of ways, fabrication of spiritual well-being for capital is one of them

prosperity gospel, sea org, sexual exploitation of followers, etc. etc. etc.

i don't think cult leaders who sexually exploit their followers are necessarily spiritually enlightened either.

i was talking about the sublime specifically, or an aesthetic/spiritual intuition of infinity. it requires a kind of humility and an ability to step beyond your immediate attachments and strivings.

anyway, I told my 6 yo that Bezos was going into space and he said, "I guess the people on earth will be free for a few days then."

lol for real?

I guess when your dad's the president you get political at an early age

yes, he hates Jeff Bezos. Not sure where he picked that up.

it's only human to hate these motherfuckers

Please god https://t.co/wPcLbKtS4W pic.twitter.com/zT74NrKEcR

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) July 20, 2021

Bezos announces in post-launch presser that he’s starting a new initiative called the “courage and civility award,” a $100 million award so the recipient can give that money to a charity of their choice. Van Jones is the first recipient. pic.twitter.com/ZboaXTNYuX

— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) July 20, 2021

Bezos really needs to be chucked out of a helicopter

i just learned that his little "space" flight this morning lasted 11 minutes

I know rockets are phallic by design but come on

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iDedHLpCQNbdQmJdXWN63P.jpeg

I figured there was already a thread for this which is why I didn't create a "Jeff Bezos launched himself into space on a dick" thread

the billionare version of a jacked up gmc sierra

elsewhere it says the recipient can give to charity or keep it. so he just gave a rich person money that they could just keep. what a guy.

if you told me at 18 i would live to see a second space race, except infinitely stupider than the first, i would have turned 40 in a day.

this is so silly it's honestly difficult for me to believe.

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Presumably Bezo's rocket was designed with that particular shape so that it could neatly dock in the center of the ship from Battle Beyond the Stars.

https://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/images/18SFP25_Nellship_02.jpg

oh my god! WHAT?

ilx posts with striking imagery

gotta love a man with a singular vision:

Jeff Bezos, hours after flying to space: "We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is." https://t.co/MibdgfkTFd

— Axios (@axios) July 20, 2021

Is there a way to make all toilets flush directly into the troposphere

what an unbelievable asshole

“Oh my god, I’m in space! We should put all of our trash here!”

Good of Jeff to reinforce that he is That Neighbor

lol

I know "Bezos is a supervillain" jokes have been around a while, but like: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/jeff-bezos-space-travel-philosophy-500300

But Bezos, a billionaire who made his fortune building Amazon into a global online marketplace but has dreamed of space travel since he was a child, has said that he believes almost religiously that sustaining the human race will require building space colonies — beginning on the moon — where millions can live and work and develop new resources to meet growing demands on Earth.

He has described these as “very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.”

this reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it...

as bezos himself said earlier today, he wouldn't have gotten to go there, to space, if it weren't for all of the amazon employees and customers.

he has us to thank

i would rather die than live on the moon with jeff bezos