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A subtle point is that the Spanish royalty funded and helped organize Columbus, but none of the royalty accompanied Columbus. Why? Back then class and "castes
by yajoe 14y ago
A subtle point is that the Spanish royalty funded and helped organize Columbus, but none of the royalty accompanied Columbus. Why? Back then class and "castes" had significant meaning. The decision-makers sent expendable people similar in spirit to the way we would send expendable robots.
Our approach today is not unreasonable or atypical of past expeditions.
- wpietri 14y agoSure, but whose name do we remember? Whose story do we tell? For better or worse, humans are narrative creatures. Note the recent talk of funding a Mars mission by treating it as a reality show. Our approach is reasonable. But since people are unreasonable, the reasonable approach may not be the best one.