We live in a society where we speak of nation building, spreading democracy and even refer to "humanitarian bombings" without a hint of sarcasm.
There is not even much criticism of it leaking into mainstream media. We've figured out how to dismiss "those protesty people" so well that we don't even have to remember they exist. We don't need a conspiracy to explain this, we've just gotten bored with it and no longer pay attention.
Anyone who pointed out the hypocrisy of sponsoring a civil war and conducting direct bombing campaigns against Libyans to "protect Libyans" was assumed to be a mouthpiece in a partisan debate - haters gonna hate right?
Recently the relatively awesome entrepreneur invested 1.25 million USD into this (seasteading institute website here).
It seems such a wonderful concept, finally somewhere where new forms of government could be tried out. But I'm just wondering how in the world they hope to deal with existing governments since their reaction to any kind of serious alternatives, especially one that either economically or ideologically presented a significant challenge, is bound to not be positive.
I was just wondering what LWer thoughts are on this matter? Also has there been any discussion of seasteading in the past that I've missed? Also I'm wondering if anyone would hazard to perhaps offer a prediction or judge how likley this is to succeed (maybe on predictionbook)?