Private Enterprise- To mars

I do see your point Harry, and you are right. Perhaps I’m a little impatient, LOL. The wealthy had Europe sewed up for centuries, and then the Great Experiment, America, allowed a few to slip out of their grasp for a while. The pioneers of the frontier didn’t feel much of the tyranny of the Banks of Europe. Anyone who was willing to work the land had a shot at a better life in the ever expanding New Territory.

But the frontier closed, and the same powerful people tightened their grasp on the place that once offered hope to the oppressed. Problem is that we’ve run out of frontier. “Space, the final Frontier” offers that same hope. But you can't get on a boat, sail across an ocean, get in a covered wagon and try to start a new life anywhere right now.

Unfortunately we’re still at the stage where we’re trying to build a boat that could sail the new sea through the endless void of outer space. Hey, right now only a privileged few, and highly trained astronauts get to see the beach front, LOL.

So the ocean may not be the ultimate answer. And any new place the hopeful find here will eventually be infiltrated by the greed of these same powerful few. America had a good run for a while. Camelot had it’s brief and shinning moment. But the poverty stricken, down trodden masses need a new place to hope and dream right now. The world needs another brief and shinning moment, however brief that mmoment might be.
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Mike

Mike