[The Martian Chronicles] Quotation

     After the chapter "Rocket Summer", the rest of the story is located in Mars. Through the year 1999, we are told about two expeditions to Mars that have failed. This time, at year 2000, the people on Earth have prepared a third expedition and the first chapter of the year, "the taxpayer" describes the scene from the perspective of a citizen of Ohio. He argues with the control station of the launch site that he, as a good citizen who has payed tax for this whole expedition, has a right to join the team of astronauts.
     The reason for wanting to leave apparently is because there will be an atomic war on Earth in a few years. But behind all that there was a phrase that caught my attention as I read the novel. It was a phrase that the taxpayer said, "anybody with any sense wanted to get away from Earth". Although on the surface, it only referred to the atomic war that was supposed to happen quite soon, however the phrase itself seemed to imply much more. The thought that nobody would want to live on this planed anymore is in a way, a direct criticism to the world of the period in which Bradbury wrote the novel, and also the world in which the reader lives in. I may be over interpreting a simple phrase but for me it was one of the most powerful phrases in the novel up until now.