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  1. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    Problem then comes with interstellar empires and conquest, possibly because people can’t figure out how to maximize or use all the resources of a single planet Like seriously, dig deeper down to earth’s core and use its geothermal energy for all sorts of stuff, it will last long after the sun...
  2. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    And there was also the thing of huge distance, will be harder to govern a colony when you have to cross oceans to even get word Say, you interested in Alternate History? I know a fic involving Cold War-Britain having to deal with itself being sent to the past and the problem in that even its...
  3. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    One of the things I was taught in school regarding colonialism, was the colony simply put NOT being truly part of the nation itself Just being something to tax and get resources from Hell, from what I recall, my country’s national hero actually wanted political reform and maybe for the...
  4. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    I think too many people have forgotten about this and actively deny it and it's extended to even making people suicidal-pseudo-pacifists unlikely to defend themselves ahead of time, unwilling to admit that force/violence is what helps keep them owning what they own
  5. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    I think Heinlein learned from history too, he knows that humans have flaws, are hypocrites, are capable of greatness....and we're not really that far away from our caveman ancestors
  6. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    Any chance you read Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers? “Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.” ― Robert A...
  7. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    Well, it can still somehow be said to be the whites' fault for NOT teaching them, or not teaching them ALL
  8. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    And the only way to do that is to vote for MORE government intervention-centralization by choosing his local Social Democrat/State Capitalist political party
  9. CarlManvers2019

    Examining Colonialism

    Hey, it’s Uncle Ruckus’ cousin from overseas I don’t think these guys will be received so well by the rest of the population or the population that’d replace anybody who thinks too differently
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