If human race is to continue advancing and evolving it will sooner or later be absolutely necessary to expand into space, colonizing other celestial bodies and building our own steads. But in order to be capable of breaching into space without bringing with us everything that caused our life on Earth to be so ridden with existential problems such as violence, oppression and poverty we will also need to learn to think like an evolved space faring race.
It may seem cynical but there is the truth in the saying, "Live free or die", as it perfectly applies to humanity as a whole. The universe is beautifully consistent and harmonious. Violence is not. Violence and the ideologies which support it are inherently self-destructive, yet are used by beings who love to live and prosper. This contradiction combined with our advancing technology poses a serious threat of self-destruction, and is by itself the cause of fear, oppression and consequently poverty.
But if we shall learn to live free, without violence, we will be consistent with the harmony of the rest of the universe, learning and exploring to no end in time and space. Spacesteading is the exhilirating way of making such new beginning, new societies in space, based on peace and mutually beneficial interaction while floating in the free reigns of space. The promises of this new frontier are as huge as the universe itself.
In the future SpaceStead.com will be a place for those who share the above sentiments as well as the ambitious and visionary spirit to come together in order to form constructive ideas and concepts as well as fruitful relationships and social connections that will help us build the first spacesteads, homes and cities in space. Everything starts small. One first has to have an idea and a vision, then share and polish it with others and then gradually, step by step, achieve it. It is all action and reaction. Nothing that is consistent with the natural laws of the universe is impossible.
We only need to discover the right action-reaction process of achieving it. It is fundamentally that simple.
If you have any questions and suggestions with regards to this vision, feel free to contact me here. Just put "spacestead" or "spacesteading" in your subject.
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