While the citizen disengagement from public life that civility promoters term 'mysterious' is clearly a complex phenomenon, some influences on it aren't arcane. Basically, space today is where the Italian parliamentary system was two years ago. Once a glamorous posse of powerful, hairless playboys, space is presently in the throes of debunking itself, somehow managing to lose a member a month in gritty braps of anticlimactic corruption and imploding glamour.
Space is no big deal anymore.
It's the sort of place you could forget to check after you've looked everywhere else for your wallet. Look a computers. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. Barbie dolls ar the most torturous things we can give our daughters.