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Aliens and Democracy


While, I think Jonathan's idea of democratizing space is a fascinating one.
I can see several 'prima facia' problems with case.
1- ism's- Cultural imperialism socialism, femenism, Islamism, would all
be quite unhappy if the affirmitive decided that earth's contribution to
intergaltic discourse would be Dead, White, Patriarcal, Christian, Libertarian
Democracy.  I think you see lots of nuke wars in the 'transition' or the
backlash.

2-Aliens, It think its pretty anthropcentric to believe that aliens would
have the cultral and or social framework to accept and or underastand
democracy.  Imagine a trying to teach the Borg the merits of individual
liberty, and before you say they did just remember the Borg just got nastier
as a reasult.

3-Solvency- If its a plan, the solvency evidence is going to be hard to
find.  Most of the more current research on aliens indicates that they are
here now and using kidnapping humans to breed slaves.  I don't have the
authors names but their are some fairly well documented books arguing this
and I will post a listing as soon as possible to facilate research.

4- Counterplans-  It would seem to me that the US miliatry would not be
the opitmal force to democratize  space.  I mean we spent several bizillion
dollars on "Star wars" not "star polling places."  I think maybe NASA, the
European Community Space Council (or whatever they call it) or Japan would
be far better mechanism for trying to democritize space.

5-The Ice Age.  It's pretty clear that by focusing on space, we would be
ignoring the earths own problems like the global warming or the lack there
of and would be risking "mile thick sheets of ice crushing the major
population center of the industrial world and having the worlds
breadbaskets be turned into windswpet tundra" or somthing like that just so
we can extoll the virtues of Thomas Jefferson to protoplasm on Alpha
Centuri.

Well that about all.   Well there are problems with idea of democritizing
space I still think it would be a far more interseting debate, than "plan
intervene country X" in let's "Bosnia" or "East Timor."  Although I think
plan US milatary intervenes in the US to give washinton D.C. a Senator may
have some merit.

Over and out
Todd
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