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Monday, May 17, 2021

CONTEXT: Slavers: Now They're Afraid People Will Escape to Mars

The article is profoundly ignorant. It confuses the Moon treaty, which manages to be both evil and silly at the same time (it has not been ratified by any nation which has launched its own citizens into space) with the Outer Space Treaty, which explicitly does not ban private property, defending the same, or establishment of whatever institutions residents of other worlds (natural or artificial) may choose to create.

One of the principal motivations of space migration will be getting away from technocratic tyranny and mushy logic like the following. “Ultimately, a city on Mars would simply be an extension of Earth, though separated by a different kind of sea.” “International law is clear about private property rights in space — there are none. Private property rights can only be created by a state on the property over which the state has sovereignty.” “Musk elaborated in 2020 that he plans for his government to be a direct democracy. Commentators have questioned why Musk would choose that form of government, which may be terribly ineffective in response to resource scarcity and constant danger.”

“[R]esource scarcity and constant danger” are the chains they use to enslave us (just look at what people have accepted as the “new normal” since early 2020). Expanding into space, where 99%+ of the mass and energy of the solar system is there for the taking, is the way to break these chains and unleash the human potential. This scares them. It should.

Let them have the fantasies they parrot in lockstep about “Great Reset” and “Build Back Better”. We shall be building elsewhere.

You might call it our obligation to the human endowment.

Posted at May 17, 2021 10:59