In other words, our national histories are propaganda, not well balanced investigations.
I'm not sure that the entirety of western civilization (or any population for that matter) can handle the mental weight of "well balanced" anything. We are fallible creatures who strive to simplify our lives and every year we move into the future is creating a more intricate world that is favoring specialization at the expense of being "well rounded". With that, humanity is pushing away from personal responsibility and towards accepting their fate as "cattle" in the technocracy(whether they are aware of it or not). We may not have enough "table flippers" left in the gene pool to reset our course :/
Even "unoccupied" land is owned by someone, there's no frontier to satisfy our exploratory, expansionary urge. There's no challenge to travel, pretty much anyone can get more or less anywhere inhabited on the planet in less than 72 hours if they have a budget on the order of a middle class American's vacation.
That's why I think we need to take colonizing nearby objects in space seriously. It gives us an expansionary purpose to satisfy that genetic urge.
I will, thank you.
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I'm not sure that the entirety of western civilization (or any population for that matter) can handle the mental weight of "well balanced" anything. We are fallible creatures who strive to simplify our lives and every year we move into the future is creating a more intricate world that is favoring specialization at the expense of being "well rounded". With that, humanity is pushing away from personal responsibility and towards accepting their fate as "cattle" in the technocracy(whether they are aware of it or not). We may not have enough "table flippers" left in the gene pool to reset our course :/
We've run out of space.
Even "unoccupied" land is owned by someone, there's no frontier to satisfy our exploratory, expansionary urge. There's no challenge to travel, pretty much anyone can get more or less anywhere inhabited on the planet in less than 72 hours if they have a budget on the order of a middle class American's vacation.
That's why I think we need to take colonizing nearby objects in space seriously. It gives us an expansionary purpose to satisfy that genetic urge.