[ExI] chinese colonization of africa etc

[Darin Sunley]

The story of the medical clinic says something very telling about humanity
in general, and why the aliens haven't landed yet.

Or do we imagine things would play out any differently in North America if
Starfleet showed up with a prefab clinic with tricorders and replicators,
defended by a small platoon of idealistic young ensigns with phasers and
shield generators?

On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >...> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> >>... Until that other stuff is going, no clinics, no schools, no even
> StarLink.  No point in any of that stuff unless it is defensible.
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> >...Some sort of satellite Internet would likely be required as part of
> the initial infrastructure.
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> Ja to all.  Once we starting really digging at the details and
> requirements, we completely understand why after all this time and all that
> sunk capital, so much of Africa is still so devoid of opportunity for
> local-born talent.
>
> The Chinese approach might work, but for the benefit of the Chinese of
> course, not for creating opportunity for Africans.  The commies appear far
> less apologetic about their use of brute force.  The Chinese don't really
> do severe introspection, ethical dilemmas and all that messy stuff.  They
> leave the navel gazing to the Americans and Europeans, for we are so very
> good at it, which is really why we aren't over there colonizing Africa's
> brains out right now.
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> spike
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