![]() ![]() More complex, more advanced societies require greater respect for their individual members. ![]() ![]() And the more complex a society becomes, the more interdependent it becomes, and the more critical the goodwill of every citizen is, because a single citizen could sabotage a Mars colony. In the Middle Ages, they had a saying: City air makes a man free. Some people have written that extraterrestrial societies will be tyrannies because the government can turn off your air and kill you. We had one report from an Israeli group that recommended the social system be based on kibbutz. The Mars Society is currently holding this contest, on the design of a 1,000-person Mars colony, with a lot of different points including technological, social, political, economic, and aesthetic considerations. And I think the Martian cities will definitely be walking cities. What about public spaces and open areas, for discussion and debate?Īlmost anywhere you go on Earth today, in almost any society, there’s parks and open areas of a certain kind. ![]()
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