Fencing In Space - Colonization Agendas

Further to my raising the issue of knowledge ownership as being an issue - who creates knowledge, who owns knowledge - and the issue of the agenda of patenting knowledge in the private domain, what I refer to as " Marketing of the Patenting Business " as per the needs of European countries, I recently came across a very respected science popularization magazine, offering a ride to space for interested people as a marketing prize to generate in people, the idea that space needs to be colonized.
They have appropriately started a new website called http://www.winatriptospace.com/ and are trying to tell everyone that if you get the wonderful prize of being able to look down at the earth from outer space, you will have broken the shackles of issues like Iraq and Afghanistan. Interestingly, they are terming the venture as "colonization" of space. Somehow the association of creativity with colonization, whether of non western world or the oil rich Middle East, or now of the outer space, is intrinsic to western thought. Fences can now be posted in yet more terrains., as the non Westerners still try to emerge from the coping mentality.
Shifting the goalposts is also what it is sometimes called. By the time, the elite in non Western societies are able to understand the extreme vacuousness of many Western ideas related to colonization, the goalposts have shifted, and knowledge has been patented.
But that a reputed magazine like New Scientist is also pushing this dream of colonizable space and trying to generate marketing buzz around the idea of an hour in space as an astronaut, the issues of public funding priorities of scientific ventures will get pushed into the background. Eternal creativity of the Western mind !!! And yes of course, the whole thing is wrapped in the " marketing of the patenting business and patenting agenda".
But yes, they also carry an interview of Jimmy Wales, who founded Wikipedia and ask him about the future of knowledge in the public domain - or as we would call it - "lokvidya". Do have a look if you get the time. Interesting stuff for knowledge dialoguers. Jimbo talks of how he found the " ideas of Open Source software " extremely exciting and how he went about this enterprise called Wikipedia.