Reading about this, I personally think what a waste. The idea of colonizing Mars has a certain appeal because there would finally be an escape from nation-sta

Reading about this, I personally think what a waste. The idea of colonizing Mars has a certain appeal because there would finally be an escape from nation-states and the games they play with their citizens as pawns. No indoctrination that starts at preschool, appeals to patriotism/nationalism where your state is the best and everyone else is inferior due to some combination of religion, ethnicity, or values. It represents a new beginning, a world without artificial, fictional boundaries where all must cooperate to survive, a place where there is a recognition that we are all one species.