Lunacy – from Late Latin lunaticus “moon-struck,” from Latin luna “moon”

The yearning to reach the stars runs deep in Baby Boomers like myself. We grew up with the deep, ingrained, cultural mythos that we were headed for a moon base by the end of the 1970s and, after that the planets. Beyond that, the stars. But then the Reagan years and the drumbeat for smaller government and lower taxes for the wealthy and the era of big government was over.

I think Christopher Nolan suffers from that nostalgia for a time when we were going places. I think he tries to capture that in Interstellar.