Space -- We need more of it.

For a long time I've advocated that the human race needs to leave earth. why? because it's too small.

4 centuries ago, when this area was first settled, it would take around 3 months for any message from the parent country to reach it's subjects. it would take the same amount of time for any agent to arrive, as they both would use the same means of travel.

Now? your glorious leaders can send you a message via TV & radio as if you were in the same room, listening to them speak. time to get an agent there? we've got planes that can circle the globe in less than a day. even the more conventional commercial aircraft can go from one coast to the other in less than 10 hours.

It's too easy to be reached.

when it was hard for our masters to contact us, out of nesecarriness, we became independent. we even went to war against the most powerful nation on earth, and surprising everyone, including ourselves, we won.

I've long argued any distance to our masters that can be traveled in less than a week, is too close. In order to be free, we need to be far enough away to make it too expensive to reach us, both in cost and in time.