“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity.” ― Ben Rich CEO Lockheed Skunk Works
Call me naive but I don’t think the desire to keep the status quo is greater than the desire to be the literal savior.
Market forces are stronger than government forces.
If free energy had that effect, electricity prices wouldn't sometimes go negative.
Also, why would instant travel (at what resource cost?) be any worse than e.g. telepresence robots for humans and just-in-time delivery for goods?
You can video chat with dissidents around the world? Cool, the state can still kick in your door or shut off your ISP or shut off your cross-border financing at the ISP or..
You can travel to join those dissidents and come back as you please, wherever whenever? Where can the State able to enforce final power there? It’s much more limited.
Or use a drone, hence why that's clearly not sufficient technology to undermine the Illuminati or whoever it is that's supposed to benefit from suppressing space magic rapid transit.
> "Ben Rich is constantly misquoted as saying “We now have the technology to take E.T home.” That is not what he said.
At the end of his presentation he showed his final slide, a picture of a disk-shaped craft – the classic “flying saucer” – flying into a partly cloudy sky with a burst of sunlight in the background and he gave his standard tagline.
It was a joke he had used in numerous presentations since 1983 when Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extraterrestrial,” a film about a young boy befriending a lost visitor from space and helping the alien get home, had become the highest-grossing film of all-time. Rich apparently decided to capitalize on this popularity. By the summer of 1983, he had added the flying saucer picture to the end of a set of between 12 and 25 slides that he showed with his lecture on the history of Lockheed’s famed Skunk Works division."