““Perhaps the question was premature in Turner’s time, but not now. Currently we see around us an ever more apparent loss of vigor of our society: increasing fixity of the power structure and bureaucratization of all levels of life; impotence of political institutions to carry off great projects; the proliferation of regulations affecting all aspects of public, private, and commercial life; the spread of irrationalism; the banalization of popular culture; the loss of willingness by individuals to take risks, to fend for themselves or think for themselves; economic stagnation and decline; the deceleration of the rate of technological innovation. . . . Everywhere you look, the writing is on the wall.””
![“The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.” quote by Robert Zubrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b84/robert-zubrin-43848_add_the-white-mars-project-is-a-bold-move-th_187411.jpg)
![“...[C]ontrary to your Earth experience and its derived cynicism, on Mars, such things are possible. Yes, fully possible, even for you, a person who obviously was a complete social failure on Earth--otherwise you wouldn't be here.” quote by Robert Zubrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e4/robert-zubrin-43848_failure_c-ontrary-to-your-earth-experience-and-i_2649759.jpg)
