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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of celestial bodies. “America’s done expanding” is the implicit rule. Our nation’s finished cooking, and the future looks like this forever (or maybe just a little smaller). It’s impossible for us to grow, and if it’s not impossible it’s bad. While we almost never discuss it in this way, everyone knows our country is as big as it will ever be. But when did I pick up the idea? Who taught me this, and why? More importantly, is it true? Why can’t, or shouldn’t, America grow?
I started listening to Trump when he tried to buy Greenland.
It was August 16, 2019, and I’d never seen the journos cry so hard. But I felt something new that day. At first, I didn’t understand it, or why — that mix of earnest excitement and dread, that desire to discuss the proposal with enthusiasm, and that sense that it was not allowed. An America that grows? It was, and to a large extent remains, a shocking suggestion. A dangerous idea. Forbidden. But for the first time in decades I was intrigued by something happening in Washington. I was excited. Damn it, I thought. I was inspired. I was also confused.
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I started listening to Trump when he tried to buy Greenland.
It was August 16, 2019, and I’d never seen the journos cry so hard. But I felt something new that day. At first, I didn’t understand it, or why — that mix of earnest excitement and dread, that desire to discuss the proposal with enthusiasm, and that sense that it was not allowed. An America that grows? It was, and to a large extent remains, a shocking suggestion. A dangerous idea. Forbidden. But for the first time in decades I was intrigued by something happening in Washington. I was excited. Damn it, I thought. I was inspired. I was also confused.
Moon Should Be a State
pirate wires #129 // the case for an america that grows, breaking down the moon thesis
