Film Theory: The Evil Mastermind You Didn't Notice In Interstellar

Let us examine NASA's statement that the human race won't survive on earth. First off, everyone except NASA seems to be very optimistic about things getting better on earth with time, effort, and making the right decisions. How much can we trust an organisation that isn't obliged to address public interest with something so directly related to public interest?

Let's take a look at NASA's honesty count in the film - first, they use Cooper's natural curiosity against him from the start - asking him for his word to pilot the shuttle before so much as telling him what their great plan is. Their plan, in the form that they explain it to him, of course, is a huge lie! They never planned to save all of the population on earth, or even a part of it - something that is later made explicit in the movie. That's right, they lie to the very guy who is meant to champion their cause and 'save mankind' as they say.

Not only that, they manipulate him into going on the mission by asking him to consider the future of those dearest to him - his children, without which he'd never have agreed. No matter what the 'greater' cause is, this sort of lying and manipulation is just pure evil. Exactly the kind of strategy that a pushy salesman selling you a fraudulent scheme is likely to use.