Evan Friday thinks:
"Couldn't they see - damn them couldn't they see that the ship was bigger than all their stupid ambitions, couldn't they see that space was the great Enemy, against which all souls aboard, all mankind had to unite?" (p. 111)
Change one word, "ship," to "planet" and you describe our condition.
In Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, mankind has two enemies, external and internal: nature (or space) and itself. See Space And Nature. Pulp sf addresses basic issues.
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