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Lalartu simply says that the colonies will resent Earth, which rests on the unquestioned presupposition that the colonies will live in misery.
I agree that the colonies should not blame Earth for any harm they do to themselves, but, from reading Lalartu's tone, it seems to assume that Earthers can do no wrong.
I'm not even sure they need to. There is an enormous assumption of "There will be a war of independence" built into a heck of a lot of Science fiction, because a lot of it was written by americans wanting to do analogies with the american independence war in space, no matter if that makes sense or not.
This has fed back into the thinking of a lot of people who are dissatisfied with the political settlements of earth, and has made "Space; Where you go to be free of political control" a reasonably common idea. So the terminal goal of a ce... (read more)