Lets asume for a moment that we have reached the starting blocks to Digit's
ideal society, that we live in a true socialist paradise (socialist in the anarchist sence). A society free from currency, free from possessions (in the ownership and property sence), free from oppression and authority.
Would such huge schemes such as Space Exploration be feesable. How could it be done? Could it be done?
Some of you may know i'm a trekkie, and probably just from growing up with it, it had never dawned on me, until a friend pointed it out, that star trek (star fleet and indeed the whole human society) still has a heirarchical comand structure and is indeed very authority driven, glaringly obviously so, no matter how watered down or benevolent it is. so imagine... a future, keeping on the optimistic side as is Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek, but without the heirarchy, without the authority...
just how would we get off the planet?
(further, would we? some might argue there's little wrong with having loads of telescopes to explore space... but it still leaves us in the more vurnerable possition with all our eggs in one basket.)
and i'm wanting to look into all areas of this. from logistical difficulties, advances and science, and perhaps most interestingly of all... the philosophy behind this, and the philosophies required within this possable future.
so....
get your thinking caps on, as my first primary school teacher used to say.
lets try to keep the bevis and buthead comments to a minimum.
i know there's at least a few people here who will appreciate this kind of thing once they stumble across it.
if my rambling first post has divertedyour thoughts from what you want to say on the topic... just read the title again.
(deliberately avoiding making a poll to encourage discussion)