Greenland: America's Next Frontier?
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Brief Summary
The episode discusses the need for a new frontier in the US to address social discontent.
Key points
- The Need for a New Frontier. Exploring the idea of sending socialists to Greenland as a new frontier.
- America as an Escape. Reflecting on how America served as an escape for Europeans.
Episode highlights
Transcript
I think it could be important for the US to have a new frontier. Maybe what we can do is send all these progressive socialists off to Greenland to tame this new frontier. It is kind of interesting as I remember from my high school history. I think the frontier was officially over by 1910, meaning every latitude and longitude had been sort of settled. And that is when the progressive era kind of began. And I do kind of wonder whether the frontier was this like escape valve for pressure that builds up, you know, resentments that build up in the economy. People could always just go west and become pioneers
and find new territory. And in a way, that's what America was for Europe, right? I mean, Europe was sort of this overcrowded place. It was oppressive. And people just left. They could opt out by going to America and settling over in what would become the United States. And I kind of wonder whether maybe we need something like that again as an escape hatch for all the discontents so they don't become democratic socialists of America.
