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+On The Merits of Expartiatization
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+
+"Hairshirting" must be avoided: the benefits of all human progress should be
+leveraged going forward, and technologies and lessons learned under flawed and
+unjust organizations should not be ignored. The point is not to drop off,
+abandon, or boycott  the polical grid, it is to create a new and improved
+subnetwork of the grid. 
+
+Change happens when things are done well. 
+
+The United States, and arguably many other developed western captialist
+democracies, is stuck in a rut: political and social progress has slowed to a
+halt and momentum has been lost. It is unclear whether there is a significant
+backslide taking place or if this is just the perception from a lack of
+progress. 
+
+Other Places
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+
+Unused infrastructure is good.
+
+A balance of resources is good: enough to not be desperately dependant, but not so many that outside forces will be attracted. 
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