<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">These Marxists who complain about the lack of "imagination" of those who want to expand into space are actually the least imaginative people in the world. Their vision of a "new world" or political system is just the same old feudalism dressed up in deceptive, seductive terminology. Their inability to grasp the real breakthroughs of space travel not just for human society but for life on earth betrays their blithering stupidity.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2021, at 9:38 PM, John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><h2 id="gmail-a-failure-of-the-imagination" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 30px; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602.031px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both;" class=""><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;" class="">A history professor weighs in on the current approach to industrializing and colonizing our solar system... He sees similarities with 17th century European expansionism...</font></h2><h2 id="gmail-a-failure-of-the-imagination" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 30px; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602.031px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both;" class=""><font size="4" class="">"A failure of the imagination"</font></h2></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>