[quote=Dinh AaronMk]
Going space-bound wouldn't be an option. We're talking about a general society where progress has gone back roughly two-hundred years and the merits of space were forgotten as a society in favor of more immediately useful concepts. I can't see a functioning society who's goal would be to reconnect with space. Maybe a small group within it, but I can't imagine it rippling throughout. Space isn't functional.
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Nah, I meant that in a metaphorical sense, not literal, although I may have harboured hopes of going spacey.
Of course, I mean this "democracy" to be capitalist to the most and held back in most human rights areas due to red tape, corruption, and a total lack of industrialist ethics