Re: An oasis on the moon?

From: Ool (ulrich.schreglmann_at_t-online.de)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:21:01 +0100

"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message news:423148e2.989476321@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...

>>And since then, more than a few countries have acquired (sometimes by
>>painful experience) some clues about how not to arrange their economies.

> Yes, but unfortunately, not enough. Certainly the Norks, and Cuba,
> are still clueless. As, in many ways, are the French and Germans,
> though nowhere near as badly.

Ah, "the American Way of Life shall bring salvation to the world,"
shan't it?

The only reason why this lack of a social infrastructure was working
so far was because America was the land of opportunity. And it was
that because it was mostly empty and pristine, with lots of resources
as of yet untapped. People who felt trapped yet were resourceful
could simply try their luck elsewhere.

That's also why you're in trouble today. You're filling up and using
up your wealth. In the end you're going to have to compromise and
learn to live sustainably and defuse social tensions other than by
trying to find ever new ways to grow and escape...

Unless, that is, you go into space. That could prolong the boom for
quite a while. That's why I'm here, because I'd love those times to
continue for some time.

But without it you're going to have pretty much the same troubles and
infrastructure changes that Europe's been having a century ago. It's
mostly geography and age that's made us how we are today, not clue-
lessness.

Don't flatter yourselves! It's been mostly your abundance of resourc-
es and arable land that's made you as prosperous as you are, not your
"superior world view." We see that by just how much resources you
need in order to lead the lifestyle to which you've become accustomed.
And we see right now in the Middle East just how superior the Neocon
Jacobin ideas really are... 

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