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It could turn space technology development into a popular form of entertainment linked to sustainable living on Earth.
Such a corporation would understand that the current official view of the future produces an emphasis on sacrifice and austerity, a narrow and self-defeating vision that nobody likes.
We need a new Weltanschauung.
In the proposed ethic, the most fundamental freedom is the freedom to leave.
Research indicates that creating a market for the good behavior of government by promoting the freedom to leave will produce sustainability with prosperity on, and off, the earth.
There is abundant evidence of this in American history.
In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson called the American frontier "room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation.
" Others at the constitutional convention knew, and said, that the frontier made equality more probable because individuals could easily leave established communities to prosper elsewhere.
They understood the value that this fact added to the labor of the workman, that it provided for his economic competency (in the sense of support for a family).
However, they took the frontier for granted in their planning, and by now their error is obvious.
The customary way to leave a civilization as recently as 1900 was to head for a frontier, defined as an isolated region of resources without proprietors and with anonymity for new arrivals.
The absence of frontiers is termed enclosure, manifesting as a constellation of symptoms in common with "isolated confined environment syndrome," including depression, anxiety, and anger.
This is a fatal cocktail of emotions requiring a "dramatic" response.
The only accessible and fully functional frontier available at this time is the solar system.
Rich repositories of historical, psychological, and ecological literature lead us to the conclusion that (1) enclosure results in reproductive failure of the enclosed population, producing senescence followed by collapse and (2) no mitigation can happen on the required scale unless a large segment of society perceives that space frontier formation is fun.
The first premise has been tested and found to be arguably true in rodents.
That tells you why it's important to get going.
But how? We need a team, something like a fusion of Disney and SpaceX, to build us a test case for the second premise, blending science, technology, craft, and performance art in a simulated space colony where shopping, music, great food, dramatic personae, and space science come together.
Most of the science would be directly applicable to our Earth home.
Should be fun.
Can't wait to get started.
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