My pedantic side wants to ask- Why not both? Luxurious space exploration AND meditative, poetic examinations of the human soul as well? I'd love to read Vonnegut's book someday while sitting in a nice research outpost on Titan, admiring great Saturn's crown out my window with my own eyes.
I read it as less about individuals and more about cultural norms (and definitely less about choice and more about necessity). Cultures that invest their resources inward may find themselves subsumed by those that invest their resources on conquest given how power accumulates.
My pedantic side wants to ask- Why not both? Luxurious space exploration AND meditative, poetic examinations of the human soul as well? I'd love to read Vonnegut's book someday while sitting in a nice research outpost on Titan, admiring great Saturn's crown out my window with my own eyes.