Nobody told you that wanting clean water and wanting cities on Mars are not opposites. Nobody told you that the clean water you drink came from dams, pipes, pumps, chemistry and cheap energy. From builders. Nobody told you that since 1990, 2.6 billion people gained access to safe drinking water. Not thanks to slogans. Thanks to growth. Nobody told you that every species we've saved, we saved with money, science and technology that only rich, industrial societies can afford. Nobody told you, because the people who shape what you think made sure of it. Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist writing from a prison cell in the 1930s, understood something the right forgot for a century: you don't take power by winning elections. You take it by winning culture. Schools, universities, media, art, the stories a society tells about itself. Win those, and politics follows. The left took that lesson seriously. They went on a long march through the institutions. And it worked. So everything you were told about deconstruction was wrong. Tearing down every structure didn't free you. It left you with nothing to stand on. Everything you were told about degrowth was wrong. Degrowth doesn't save the planet. It means poorer people, weaker societies, and less money to clean anything. Everything you were told about ambition being arrogance was wrong. Everything you were told about humans being a virus on the planet was wrong. Everything you were told about progress being the problem was wrong. So ask yourself honestly why the world feels like it's going wrong. It's not because we built too much. It's because we stopped building. We stopped building nuclear plants. We stopped building housing. We stopped building trains, dams, grids. We spent 40 years teaching kids to be ashamed of their own civilization, and now we're surprised they're anxious and hopeless. That's what "NOBODY wants a city on Mars. WE WANT TO LIVE!" really is. Not a cry for life. A Gramscian victory: a generation taught that wanting less is a moral position.