[extropy-chat] Psychology of investments in infrastructure

[Russell Wallace]

On 6/20/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I do not advocate weakness, for that
> strategy invites attack.


Good, we're agreed on that. Hit back when attacked - but in the meantime let
us not distort our lives with phantom fear.

I advocate we spread out more evenly, reducing overcrowding and improving
> quality of life for everyone.  We no longer have the conditions that led
> to
> enormous skyscrapers.  The skyscrapers create the need for subways, which
> leads to a way of life that isn't particularly pleasant: getting on a
> train
> every morning and evening.  We have advanced communications now, advanced
> transportation, advanced manufacturing.  We are poised to make enormous
> advances in quality of life for the proletariat if we choose to seize this
> opportunity.


"The workers' flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils,
score on score" - frig me, I actually remembered a poem from school! (I'll
admit I checked the wording with Google :))

Doesn't strike me as an issue that matters, except for the whole "we shall
make the decisions for the proletariat, comrade, and they shall like it!"
thing, but if you want to advocate that go ahead. (If you get the ear of
someone in power, please try for the removal of the planning laws that set
people at each others' throats for an artificial scarcity of housing while
millions of hectares of land lie unused, but I digress.)

But that's a completely different issue - you know better than to think the
bogeyman terrorist needs to get dragged into the discussion, so please
don't.
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