APOAPSIS
@APOAPSIS

I’ve seen people on twitter punk on the old 70s Stanford Torus/ Bernal Sphere concept art for basically being American Suburbia in Space but to be frank in a situation where you can literally just build more space to live in without worrying about, like, nature conservation or density concerns what’s stopping you (or discouraging you!) from being space-inefficient with housing and just giving everyone a snazzy 70s futurist home at Earth-Moon L4?


APOAPSIS
@APOAPSIS



The quote chosts have decided space futurism is fascism, I guess

when the revolution comes I will be first against the wall during the internal purges for fantasizing about post-scarcity space futurism, it has been good posting with you all comrades


lupi
@lupi

i love how your "in a post-scarcity world, we can afford to get a lil nice with it if we ever built big mega space structures for people to live in and that would be neat"

is so quickly equated with "you're just as bad as jeff bezos because he wants to make big space mega structures but specifically have them be company towns"

i've been getting more and more fatigued with seeing Takes on my timeline and I swear i'm gonna have to nuke or mute half this site over it at this point. Maybe it's gotten worse in the latest influx, but who knows

we deserve to dream of a better, cooler world, and those dreams do not have to be compared to those who would pursue similar fantasies for the wrong reasons


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in reply to @APOAPSIS's post:

i do think the sort of artistic assumption that a space habitat will be entirely suburban is an interesting thing to analyze, but... Yeah. Come the fuck on (people who get angry at you for this), the concept of living in space does not inherently reinforce awful systems even when it superficially resembles some bad stuff.