What will we Prostest?

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:
> Imagine you're living up in Island 1, 2 or 3. What the heck will
> people protest about. It seems that protests and democratic action
> are necessary to get people invested in the political system.
>
> Environmentalism, anti-nuclear, anti-poverty, anti-NASA, anti-SUV,
> save the rainforest, save the dolphins, anti-pig farming because of
> waste streams, anti-garbage dumps, etc will all be moot.
>
> It's unlikely that the Habitat's will allow people to immigrate if
> there are no jobs for them, so the poverty angle is gone.
> Affirmative action seems to be out the airlock as well considering
> that everyone up there will be qualified in some fashion or another.
> Zoning disputes will probably also be moot because I tend to think
> that the built-out design of the Habitat will have already been
> thought out before it is completed.
>
> Sure there may be ideological battles for education pedagogy for the
> children's schools, local governance issues, but what world/society
> changing issues will people get all worked up about?
>
> TangoMan

"And isn't life extremely flat/ With nothing whatever to grumble at."
__Gilbert & Sullivan

I expect with most major issues gone, people will inflate minor issues
to major proportions. Our ancestors might well think if they could
see us that we've done the same thing.

Rick Brooks