Far-Right Space Exploration

What Would a Reactionary Movement Be Looking for In Outer Space?

The end of the colonial age hit European elites with a cold truth: There were no more untold riches to be found in strange lands. We had hit the end of a road. Having climbed every mountain and traversed every sea, White explorers soon fled into new avenues, the deep sea, ocean floors, spelunking, and outer space.

Only technology was the limit. To kick off the new age of space exploration, the United States, flexing its muscle as the now most-powerful nation, decided to aim for the Moon. And heck—if we couldn’t really go to the Moon, we’d fake it.

The point was, we had to overcome this impasse presented by the end of colonialism, one way or another. People needed to be inspired. (Notice that today, we’re not aiming for Mars, we’re rather spending trillions on AI—which I think is a scam.)

The concept of an ‘outer space’ full of habitable planets and strange, otherworldly lifeforms was rarely conceived by anyone before the end of our colonial heyday. But the idea of an explorable outer space offered the potential for harvesting new colonies.

And by extension, those new planets would bring us even greater ‘diversity’ (i.e., more beings whose labor and resources could be exploited in exchange for addictive opiates).

Progressive Space Exploration Fantasies

Space exploration has been primarily driven by progressive liberal fantasies. The aims seem to liberate humanity from the constraints of planet Earth. Perhaps to be dominated by others. Or to pursue sustained economic growth by mining abandoned ancient alien mines.

And a lot of space-age fantasy involves having sex with aliens, or the boring bureaucracies of intergalactic trade wars (George Lucas?).

Precisely after 1945, many a science-fiction novelist gained prominence, as Europe’s collapse signified the definitive end of classical colonialism. People alive today have all experienced the rising popularity of futurist franchises such as Dune, Star Wars, Star Trek, Asimov’s Foundation series, Avatar, Starship Troopers, or even Blade Runner and its idea of off-world colonies.

The science fiction genre has allowed ordinary people to question their humanity. What if there were synthetic humans, such as the Replicants in Blade Runner? What if natives got in the way of strip-mining their planets, as in Avatar? And what if computers could become smarter than people, such as HAL-9000 in Space Odyssey?

Maybe we’d stoop to the level of apes again, as in Planet of the Apes.

Reactionary Space Exploration and Its Purpose

Some franchises, such as Star Trek, have been accused of carrying racist or right-wing overtones. By casting aggressive blacks as Klingons, for example, or by presenting the Borg (“resistance is futile”) in Islam’s green nightshade. Perhaps the Vulcans could be though of as intellectual Chinamen.

But White people, of course, were clearly in charge of the Federation.

“To boldly go where no man has gone before” is an expression of White men’s desire for exploration and conquest. It’s the same sentiment that once drove our ancestors across the Eurasian Steppe, or why the Viking’s original kenning for ship was “horse of the sea” (because their ships galloped across the waves).

Space exploration is White identity. But is space exploration also meaningful from a conservative or even reactionary point of view? What, in other words, would deeply religious, arch-conservative “fascist or Nazi” men be looking for in outer space, if it implied leaving Earth behind, to be uprooted from Mother Gaia, and to be confronted with strange diversity of all sorts?

Supremacy

The answer is, we’d be looking for Supremacy.

Entertaining the possibility that other worlds do indeed exist, and that they are teeming with intelligent life evolving at different rates, and having achieved widely varied levels of technological dominance, the goal of reactionary space exploration is not so much to meet strangers and trade resources, but rather to improve our racial genotype and phenotype in order to match and then exceed the capabilities of the most superior beings in existence in the universe.

It should be clear that the far-right men seeking to explore outer space will not be interested in having sex with aliens to create freakish new combinations of offspring. Rather, we should, through a process of self-directed evolution, pursue our growth and development—mentally, culturally, and physically—and aspire to ameliorate our race to become the best possible version of ourselves.

We can do so without losing our connection to Earth. And we shall do so without surrendering our biology. We remain spirited beings of flesh and blood. We shall neither be synthetics nor cyborgs, neither robots nor electronic shims captured inside a virtual reality.

We shall become a spiritually powerful race of beings that outclasses all others, including their machines and robots.

In short, if and when we leave Earth, we leave as humans, but shall return as gods.