It's decades of human curiosity, persistence, and creativity all packed into one little spacecraft still whispering to us from the edge of the solar system
I miss that spirit of curiosity, so much has become cultural mudslinging and navel gazing, plus money in the hands of those who don’t have the capacity to do any good with it. Bill Gates recently announcing he will give everything away should be the norm, not the exception in terms of spirit.
I think the problem is that when you take things at face value, your naivety eventually gets exploited, and you learn to always be on guard.
The problem is that exploitation of anyone and everyone you can has been normalized and glorified in our culture.
We could just all agree that exploitation of others is wrong and unacceptable and severely punish those that try to exploit vulnerable people. But no, defauding Granny for her entire retirement is acceptable behavior now.
It's not just "acceptable behavior", it is literally taught as the thing to strive for in business programs and obsessed over in weekly meetings and the primary way to get on magazine covers.