But you do have a point.

We have been too preoccupied with other matters on this site, we have lost our way, and those who used to come here seeking to celebrate the exploration of space have gone elsewhere.

The conversation shifted to other topics, themes which reflected other interests and concerns, self-centered obsessions and petty conflicts and divisions among our contributors.

This forum has only followed the society as a whole. The dialog has drifted away from space because the nation has begun to abandon that great adventure, and perhaps because those who should have led that quest now prefer to monopolize the conversation and talk about their own parochial obsessions. We didn't just "lose that core", we drove them away. They left in frustration and disgust.

I don't blame them.