Daily Inspiration Quote by Susan George

“Now we are flying off into outer space” is activist rhetoric doing what it does best: yanking the reader out of complacency with a deliberately absurd image. Susan George isn’t literally talking about rockets; she’s describing a moral and political atmosphere where economic logic has slipped its leash. The metaphor suggests speed, thrill, and disorientation - a collective rush that feels like progress while quietly removing the stabilizers that keep power accountable.

The phrase “no clear curb” is the real indictment. A curb is mundane infrastructure, the kind of boundary you only notice when it’s missing and the street turns dangerous. George’s intent is to make deregulation and “growth at any cost” feel not like an abstract policy preference but like the disappearance of ordinary safeguards: limits on corporate behavior, environmental protection, labor rights, public spending ethics. She frames “the economy” as a rhetorical alibi, a sacred word that can launder almost any harm into necessity. That’s the subtext: when leaders invoke the economy, they often mean specific interests, insulated from the consequences that everyone else absorbs.

Contextually, this sits in the late-20th and early-21st century arc of neoliberal globalization - privatization, financialization, austerity, trade regimes that treat social protections as “barriers.” George’s line works because it captures how the economy became a quasi-natural force in public speech, something to be appeased rather than governed. The warning isn’t that ambition is bad; it’s that ambition without a curb stops being freedom and starts being permission.