Right Stuff, based on the Tom Wolfe book about the Mercury astronauts was released in 1983. The movie was thought to have the potential of boosting the presidential hopes of John Glenn, one of the Mercury astronauts, then a senator, and also a presidential candidate. Glenn did not make a lot of headway in the primaries, possibly because he was depicted as an unpleasant, sanctimonious prig in Right Stuff.The answer is found in God's first blessing to man: "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it." Expounding on the command to 'subdue the earth,' one of the great Jewish thinkers, Nachmonidies, writes that God empowered every human to rule over the world, to conquer it, and to make it his own. Translated into modern parlance, one can argue that God's first blessing to mankind was founded upon the ideals of capitalism; to own and earn as much as possible in one's lifetime. If one takes that Biblical command seriously, it is not surprising that humans have such