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Jipowap von Angband's avatar

I NEED to get my people on Mars. My blood boils with want to be ancestor of "those red bastards!" rebelling against Earth scum. A land of manly men doing manly things, like scraping by in an existence that makes the Inuit look soft.

It feels fitting that such a masculine endeavor has an air of Musk.

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Siddhesh's avatar

Incredible piece. The first section of this reminded me of a passage from a book I'm currently reading (even though it's not directly related):

"The end of the frontier struck most Americans, not least Turner, as a change for the worst. The frontier had given America its egalitarian stamp: people who chafed under the yoke of Boston Brahmins or New York nabobs could simply move west. Now even the West was settled - and San Francisco had its very own Nob Hill. The frontier had acted as a guarantee of America's rugged individualism. Now America was going the way of decadent Europe and becoming a settled civilization. The frontier had given America its endless sense of possibility. Now even the vast spaces of the West were parceled out and divvied up."

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