This is part of a post on the Space Cynics blog:
Is our species ready to make the leap off this rock, before we figure out what is fundamentally wrong with our culture/civilisation/society/whatever, or are we doomed to carry the seeds of this sort of behaviour with us throughout the cosmos?
I would suggest that by having multiple new 'homes' for humanity, maybe (just maybe) we can experiment more with different cultures, societies and governments. Possibly leading to better solutions than anything we've come up with so far.
