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J. M. Lakin's avatar

I don't get how you're going to (theoretically) square the circle of having both a very powerful techno nation state, and strong local communities. Localism means local character, local ideas, local control -- it has to mean something real to be local. How does that work with giant projects like spaceflight? If you're going to get a whole society on board with something huge like that, you need to influence/compel/crush a lot of people into doing it, who might not really want to. Both these ideas have their merits. I don't see how you're getting both.

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Peregrinus's avatar

Thought provoking and well written.

Read Sun Ra's poetry.

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