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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">In fact, I don't even want my tax revenue to go to parts of the country that I see as having regressive tendencies. The greater good isn't for the greater good. For me, I am fine to mainly supporting the people around me who do good work. I don’t see that as tribal, just the facts of life that I tried to prevent from happening in the first place. I'm glad there are people trying to get things on track again, but building an ark is a sensible contingency too.</pre>
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<p>I'm with you on this... I think the practical application of
"supporting those around me who do good work" is often mistaken
for (or overlaps with?) tribalism. <br>
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<p>On the topic of "Arks": I just finished reading a SF novel (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Man-Tree-Novel-Sage-Walker/dp/0765379929">Man
in the Tree</a>) by a (semi) local author/friend, Sage Walker.
It is "yet another" Space Ark story, but as she didn't start
writing SF (her first novel was <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Sage-Walker/e/B001HOR1TQ/">Whiteout</a>)
until she (semi) retired as an MD in her 60's(?) and she is now in
her 70's, has an unusually rich awareness of human nature and
social constructs (ad-hoc family/friend groupings as well as
formal structures such as hospitals and local/regional/national
health-care systems).</p>
<p>Complementarily, I finally took an interest in Musk's aspirations
for colonizing Mars which has lead me to contemplate the myriad
(mostly sociopolitical vs technical) implications of that.
Similarly, the SFI "expoplanet" initiative informs this
consideration as well. I'm also a big fan of the urbanist Paolo
Soleri and his "Arcologies" which is a portmanteau of "Architected
Ecology" but represents ultra-high density urban constructs
designed on principles similar to what might otherwise be reserved
for generation-ships or space-arks. Not absolutely/fully
self-contained, but designed to provide virtually all of their own
needs... direct solar energy, food production, rain capture and
water recycling, etc. Not formally as isolated as say Biosphere
I/II but in principle, significantly self-sustainable and probably
hardenable to be less fragile to external conditions. <br>
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<p>Right here in River City (Tesuque-Pojoaque Rivers) is the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gardenwarriorsgoodseeds.com/2014/07/27/tesuque-pueblo-farm-nm/">Tesuque
Seed Bank</a>. While not an Ark exactly, they are trying hard
to attend to one of the central goals of an Ark.<br>
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<p>I've drifted in and out of the periphery of prepper and
survivalist communities, though they almost to an individual are
much too "individualistic" (rabid libertarian) for my taste, which
also includes being gun nuts and ammo hoarders. I like some of
the basic questions they ask, but am not so much on board for
their answers. <br>
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<p>It is interesting to see similar if not identical awareness
coming from the likes of you. I'm not sure what an Ark implies
for you.<br>
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<p>- Steve<br>
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