Why?

“As he observed the motions in the heavens, he pondered, as he had so often during his life, the question of why people had ceased to look upward. The people of his times had once again begun to think that there was no lebensraum—no room in the world, no room in the material universe, and no infinity in which to discover immortal room.

He had met so many like that in the camps, in universities, in seats of power, and even in the place where he now lived. All of them felt compelled to seek solutions, and in doing so they tried to force their will upon others. The worst would try to force it upon mankind. They would make space for humanity by destroying a portion of humanity. Like their forerunners, they would in the end make the world more bereft of space and time. They looked at the sky, but it was meaningless to them, empty and flat. They killed hope because they had no true hope.”
~Michael O’Brien (from Sophia House)