5/ * part of the drive to explore is to find fertile grounds where we can live with less competition with other humans, but because population is going to decline, we are at or near "peak space travel enthusiasm", and it will decline
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16/ OK, just saw the clock. Need to work. More later, perhaps.
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18/ "he said nothing about vibrant street food" rebuttal: he said "the HEDONISM OF CITIES, where SO MANY FOODS, social connections, and types of entertainment can be enjoyed for LITTLE COST." so, yes, he didhttps://twitter.com/hughhowey/status/1134540181363679235 …
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24/ Also, note that Hugh Howey wants YOU to live in the cities, surrounded by swams of other people. Where does HH - rich from writing SF novels - live? Why on a yacht, by himself, so he doesn't have to live in the cities! https://www.sailingtoday.co.uk/cruising/cruising-stories/hugh-howey/ …pic.twitter.com/RMTEGHB41n
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25/ Freedom-minded working class people have always chafed under the yoke and dreamed of Exit. Elites have ALWAYS hate idea of Exit. From sending bounty hunters after African slaves or Scots Irish who released themselves from indentured service under their own recognizance to >
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26/ Lincoln killing off 3% of the US population to defend the sacred principle that every knee must bow to the federal government, the elites are NEVER willing to let people go. The hilarious thing tho is that HH thinks of himself as a prole revolutionary. He dislikes >
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27/ rich people and their yachts (even as he lives on a catamaran and travels the world), because they physically reify a class structure, with hot tubs up top and kitchens below. ...as if HH living on a yacht and urban poor living in projects doesn't do the same!
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29/ What percent of England's population had emigrated to North America by 1600? Did this mean that North America was a "graveyard", with no future?
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