On Monday, April 14th, six elite American women flew into space from West Texas on a self-stuttering rocket ship developed by space technology company Blue Origin. The highly ballyhooed all-female flight “crew” with Burleigh Origin being sold as a huge leap in the world as well as women include television personality Gale King and Bezos’ fiance Lauren Sanchez.
In preparation for the star-studded spectacle, El Magazine ran a fawed cover story about “historical missions.” The magazine described it as “the first time everyone went after completing their hair and makeup.” By the end of the article, essentially a continuous sequence of lines that induce aneurysms, we find ourselves with little hope for the world except that the asteroid attacks and ends it all.
For example, Perry is quoted as declaring, “I’m going to put my astronauts with my astronauts,” and as declaring that he shares the glorious logistics of a celebrity’s space travel. Then there’s a swap between Sanchez and Sanchez, who predicts “There’s a (eye) rush extension flying through the capsule!”, and King, who wonders whether Rush will “stay.” Prompts a response from Sanchez.
Aisha Bou, an aerospace engineer and entrepreneur’s “crew,” explains that he wanted to “test” his hair so that the rocket was ready.
Of course, this does not mean that women don’t care about eyelashes and hair. But in a world where many women don’t have the money to eat, there’s far more skydive in one of the most expensive places on the planet to see how hair works during the millions of 11th dollar wonders in outer space.
But they do everything to reinforce inequality and laugh at Sanchez’s pre-flight claim. After Monday’s flight was completed, she was quoted in retrospect to speedy inspection of the Earth from above. “You see this and you say, ‘We’re all together.’
Certainly, astronomical hypocrisy is needed to evoke collective “us” if you are not engaged in the world’s second-bundance human, with a net worth of $23.12 billion as of March. And when Bezos himself actively toressing the elimination of American solidarity and working with President Donald Trump, we are not actually “together.” Its anti-feminist agenda is clear as day.
The Blue Origin website assures visitors that the company “exist for the benefit of the planet” and boasts “passion for preserving the planet”, the “eternal home of humanity.” To that end, Blue Origin is said to strive to “minimise carbon emissions and promote sustainable practices in all aspects of its operations” — reusable rockets, reusable engines, etc. — end up becoming a typical corporate claptrap.
And it’s not just blue origin that suffocated Bezos’s own carbon footprint into the “eternal home of mankind.” He remains the executive chairman and largest shareholder of Amazon, which produced hundreds of millions of pounds of plastic packages, as pointed out by Washington, DC-based Group & Water Watch last year.
The report explains that when plastic breaks, it “enteres the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe, and the air that hurts humans and ecosystems around the world.”
It’s no wonder the rich are trying to escape.
Obviously, Bezos is not responsible for the end of Earth. There are many other pledges who have made fair distributions while preaching sustainability, including Elon Musk, the founder of space technology company SpaceX and the ambitious colony of Mars.
But Blue Origin’s “historical” propaganda stunts place a fake feminist face on a system based on destruction and inequality. This is something that Americans must continue to die in poverty on a massive scale, allowing elite minorities to ride their own pilot rockets. Why reduce terrestrial suffering by spending billions of dollars when you can shoot stars instead?
Ultimately, the stunt didn’t receive the rave reviews that were expected from comments in the press and social media. In fact, even the New York Times felt compelled to use the term “capitalism” in the assessment that “all women’s flights in Blue Origin prove that women can freely enjoy the most luxurious loot of capitalism with wealthy men.”
Certainly, this is capitalism around rocket fuel, taking in sharp socioeconomic injustice and infusing it into space.
After a dramatic kiss on the ground after getting off the rocket ship, Perry professed that he now “feels a connection to love” and declared a trip “all for the benefit of the earth.”
There is no doubt that the majority of the Earth’s inhabitants have failed to detect any kind of “benefits” such as the bombing of Palestinian women and children bombed by blacksmiths in the US-backed massacre in the Gaza Strip.
In the meantime, we hope everyone’s eyelash extensions remained.
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