No gods~ No Spaceships the musical !!!

No gods No Spaceships

A musical reenactment of the Apollo moon landing

3 players~ Neil Armstrong Walter Cronkite, and Guest dressed in black with balaclava 

Model spacecraft landing BEEPING

                                                       NA

Houston, tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed.

                                                       WC  enters the television screen

Hello, I’m Walter Cronkite. 

1969 was a million years ago viewed from the streets of class war, urban uprisings, student communes and rioting, 

1969 is like a song that makes you so frightened and curious, that you lay awake at childhood nights, crying with a longing to be within its folds. 

1969 is a great song for cities on fire and the ambush of patrol cars, of guerrilla war, of prison uprisings & revolutions ! 

1969 was the end of the world. It was Woodstock for white youth, samo ghetto for people of color, only this year, with armed insurrections. CoInTelPro and state violence.. 

1969 was the end of the world for the vietnamese people. With More than 1 million people dead fighting against US invasion and bombings in North Vietnam. 

That is men, women and children.

Who weren’t able to watch the shitty blurred images of footsteps on the moon, because they were holding guns and shooting down our airplanes, soldiers, and collaborators.

1969 was carpet bombing and agent orange defoliated forests for the vietcong. To make the surface of indochina become the dead surface of earth’s moon, to match the burned out dead cities of Newark, Detroit, and Watts, bombed with poverty and racism. Still smoldering, still rebelling..

Footsteps tripping explosives. 

Across history to distract us from the revolution, distract us from poverty

To distract us from nasa being run by actual Nazi war criminals.

This is NASA putting boots on to our ancestral wonder and  awe. This cycling of birth, tide, and flow.

1969 was a piece of shit named Apollo. 

Like a bullet to the face of history. 

Takes off glasses and rubs face with a dopey smile, cry.

Holey cow, Men have landed on the moon 

BEEP

BEEP

Neil Armstrong steps onto the moon, says his lines:

                                                      NA

One small step for BEEP

Sets up his little american flag, hammers it in with his gun.

                                                       WC

I didn’t hear what he said, Neil ?? 

                                                       NA cue music sings ! folk punk 

Apollo spaceships are full of lies

Rioting cities left to cry

But it wont do any good to leave this Earth

When you get to this point there’s only death, 

it’s best to let it burn

Got to the point where profits, aren’t enough

You eviction notice is fuckn rough

Stick you all in prisons

Sleep on sidewalks

With all the bums 

We don’t care what happens to you

Fuck the moon 

Blow up the sun

Class war against yourselves, I brought a gun !

It’s hard to believe you watch TV, democracies a joke 

They’re hungry and broke

the young they eat our food,

Out of trash cans -you hippies are rude 

No one ever said that it was easy to be free

Trying to live like we live. . . on fascist TV

We know our propaganda is strong

When the poor they sing along.

Apollo 11

Hip hip hurrah !

Distractions work

Your all slaves

In gilded cage  . . .muffled rage.

Some Nazis built this ship for me

You can’t come in, this shit ain't free

You can keep the cats, we’ve got all cops 

The earths used up- we’re burning crops

Governement practicing genocide, 

Thank god white jesus is on our side.

Businessmen cutting all the trees

And it’s bound to doom all the bees, 

The dumpster fire is all you guard 

You can dig your own graves in the backyard

I heard that some Cosmonauts are going to attack

We know these, commie fucks

BUT SHUCKS

we got here first

Cause the moon is full tonight

We Planted our bloody flag to fight

There's the earth hanging in the sky 

Its empty shell is left behind   to die

Proof that the rich all had a good time

They made this mess, left for us,

Just like a morgue, we cry along

Sweeping the floors, starving the poor,

wiping their ass

kill the middle class

Outer space is claimed with star Spangled bullshit,

now cover your eyes 

The stars are owned by corporations 

 We’re billionaires

 the future belongs to our heirs

I’m neil Armstrong,

Stomping on the moon. 

Fuck your dreams and magic, your poetry is lame

Now outer space  is mine.

White men killed the stars, driving big cars

We own the world, your all wage slaves, drinking in bars

Go ahead and vote, you trash get gassed

This spacecraft is flying straight 

up god’s ass.

Guest leaps out from behind a crater and STABS the back of Neil’s helmet which pours gallons of blood

Our guest Lights the US flag on fire and faces the rising Earth over moonscape !

Sings:

                                                       Guest

The earth’s a big blue marble 

When we see it from out here

The sun and moon declare

Her beauty’s very rare.

Walk away and flash to burning bright moonlight !  End.

don't let em leave the zine in 10 sections

Don’t let them leave!

for Laika

From the list of demands against the so-called city of Olympia, WA:

Number 13. Cessation of all space exploration  

and 

Number 2. Blow up the sun!

 A ten point countdown as to why we oppose human conquest in space

Our hatred of manned space travel has nothing to do with our love of science fiction! Even with all the problems with the genre, there is much to love and cherish. So much so, that we confuse and transpose this love onto modern-day space exploration, which is not, and will never be, as free and utterly wild as our dreams.

If you watch NASA films and look through their documents, what you see is not space opera--not Octavia Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin--but a sterile lab bleached of all our dreams and wonder. You see hardware and machines, and men building structures for business. A  future architecture of our entanglement in domination. We’ve been fooled by their propaganda. 

The hero is always some North American, flaunting some pure, good guy hero mysticism, in a gleaming white suit. With flags and expensive, gold-plated spaceships. Either in ruins or in perfect order. 

NASA has the best propagandists in the world, even better than the police’s. And the point of this PR mission is to make space appear peaceful, serene, and sterile. But we know that the space industry is none of these things. 

NASA is populated with the soft-spoken, intelligent professor, a white man. This is the number one cause for alarm. That should concern everyone. Space is for white people only. Say it again, and watch the footage, the newscasts, the documentaries. Space is for white people and their property, weapons and robots. 

That is why rich, white billionaires are interested in space exploration. They don’t want us to see what lies behind space exploration.To look closer, without television lenses or cellphones. We need a countdown, for drama, for thrills. Like an execution. 

Countdown

10.  Space colonization and space travel are unethical 

 9.   The sun, moon, and planets are not our junkyards

 8.    Space exploration is colonialism

 7.    You will be left behind

 6.    Weapons development and militarism

 5.    Tourism: everybody hates a tourist

 4.    Nationalism: space exploration is statist 

 3.    Space exploitation is not vegan

 2.    Contamination! 

 1.    Space is only for white men

 0.    Wernher von Braun

 Supplement 

10.  Space colonization and space travel is unethical 

There are numerous ethical concerns to consider regarding human space exploration. These concerns can be sorted into four realms.

The first realm to investigate is human society: how we behave toward each other and how this disgraceful state of affairs will be relocated into space and the exoplanets. While there are people houseless, while there are people hungry, while there are people dying on our streets, while there are prisons and people locked in cages, it is indefensible to waste any funds on rich people’s dreams. None of us can be free as long as these conditions exist. 

The most common rebuttal to this position is that space travel receives only a small percentage of taxes in the US, having little impact on the redistribution of our collective resources. And yet, year after year, decade after decade, the poor grow poorer, the wealth gap expands, and the spaceships keep lifting off. We all are forced to support this status quo with our hunger and our poverty.

The second realm relates to the relationship between human civilization and the Earth: our planet’s richness of lifeforms and its very structures. Our history and behavior have shown the dangers that we humans represent. Through strip mining, clearcutting entire bioregions, industrial hunting and fishing species to the point of extinction, the draining of estuaries, the paving of wetlands, the dredging of rivers, killing the oceans, and mining the very heart out of our planet.

Space preservation requires that the solar system be valued for its own sake, not on the basis of what it can do for us. Space conservation insists that extraterrestrial resources ought not to be exploited to benefit the few at the expense of the many or of the solar system itself. Space sustainability asks that our explorations "do no harm" and that we leave the moon, Mars, and space itself no worse--and perhaps better--than we found them.

Margaret R. McLean 

None of these preservationist or conservationist ideals are even accomplished here on earth. This leads to the obvious conclusion that no! We are not capable of responsibly caring for one planet, let alone an entire universe.

The third realm focuses on the notion that humans will invade other moons and planets, and that we will want to change them to resemble the Earth. This is a process known as “terraforming,” a term for the absolute destruction of entire worlds’ ecosystems. This process is in no way understood. We will be driven to terraform worlds because outer space is almost entirely uninhabitable for humans. 

This acceptance of radically reshaping outer space mirrors the way we have already drastically transformed Earth with industry and fossil fuel combustion. But forget this point, and listen to their maniacal plans to improve other planets instead of this one. Their plans for outer space seem to be the complete destruction of the worlds they find, like we’ve destroyed the world where we were born, and which we have an obligation to share with all of life, whether edible or not.

Robert Sparrow argues that terraforming “demonstrates at least two serious defects of moral character: an aesthetic insensitivity and the sin of hubris … To change whole planets to suit our ends is arrogant vandalism.” He claims that we can demonstrate aesthetic insensitivity in two ways: firstly, by destroying beauty directly and, secondly, by using beauty “for one’s own purposes in ways that make no reference to its beauty” even though that beauty is not destroyed.The basis of this ethical problem is not knowing how our actions, no matter how noble in intent, might affect life so fundamentally different from ourselves.

Liz Miller

The fourth realm of ethical concern we must face is our incredibly limited understanding of time, non-human history, and non-human, non-biological nature: the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets themselves. Is there geological life, lunar life, star life? Some panpsychism?

The centuries old doctrine of panpsychism--the idea that consciousness is universal, existing as some kind of mind stuff inside molecules and atoms. Consciousness doesn’t have to emerge. It’s built into matter, perhaps as some kind of quantum mechanical effect.

George Johnson  

Keekok Lee argues that we should go further still, beyond the biocentric view, and “develop a conception of intrinsic value which is not necessarily tied up solely with the fate of biotic Nature … [and] confront the issue of abiotic or inanimate nature as a locus of intrinsic value”. His approach is to start by constructing an ‘intrinsic value ethics’ for the Earth (with a view to later extending it to Mars) based on the following considerations. Firstly, Earth did not come into existence (or continue to exist) for the benefit of human beings. Secondly, although human beings find much of nonbiological Nature useful, it doesn’t follow that Nature exists for humanity. Expanding on this, he points out that: a) the genesis of the Earth is independent of the arrival of humans; b) Earth and its biota would not be extinguished if humanity were to become extinct; c) the functioning of the biota as a systemic whole would be independent of humans; d) Earth and its biosphere are autonomous; and e) from the perspective of Earth and its biota, humanity is dispensable and maybe even redundant.

Paul York 

We don't know the full spectrum of what is definable as life.  We can’t even understand the life of a tree, let alone consciousness. 

Do we care about the geological life history of Mars, or the possibility that if we left other planets alone, that one day a billion years from now, life might come into being?  Or the notion that life exists there already, but we have failed to comprehend its existence because we are blinded by our own imagined brilliance.

While this is written from the human perspective, there are infinitely more complex points of view to consider. Points of view which our very first attempts at space exploration could destroy.

Our last thousand years on Earth have shown us that we as a species are not capable of coexisting within any natural ecosystem. While the science fiction lovers and the poets will scream and protest that, individually, we are magnificent, brilliant, and capable of transcendent miracles, history has nothing but genocide to show us, cities carpeted over forests, the complete destruction of all life that dares not serve some purpose of mankind. Our individual beauty is wholly wiped away when one looks back over our shoulder at this dead earth: these cemetery cities; the festering trash pools of our oceans; the hazed-out, polluted sky; the radioactive waste; the extraction-fueled hellscape that we have created. If your fake-ass gods were not bound to your image, they would instantly kill us all. We deserve nothing less. 

The answer to whether or not we should be allowed to explore other worlds is a giant

 NO!

Followed by a painful slap to our faces. 

Fuck you, mankind.