A Trip to the Moon

History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk

There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.

And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.

The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.

That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.

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Fill me life up with knowns. As simple as that. Fuck the unknown (video pending).

But I'm serious, filling your life up with things to do and things to think about is probably the best way to overcome it. Not to be mistaken for anxiety.

It's just useful to have multiple hobbies and interests, and many more around the corner. After I've done everything I want to with music, art, TV/games, I want to learn something like astronomy or biology, and become some form of medical knowledge-person. Learn another language. Life is actually filled with limitless areas to gain knowledge and skill from. Boredom is the biggest danger we should all worry about.

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