My Final Word On Mandatory Politics In Space

In the form of a very non-canon Eldraeverse outtake.

(For those not familiar with my fiction, see here.)

"Since contact with Earth, it has been a curious observation among many people that in human politics, it appears virtually impossible for anyone to advocate consensual/libertist social structures without also being a dogmatic non-cooperator of the most determined and useless stripe; and likewise, it is at least as impossible to advocate cooperation towards any common good without wrapping it in the framework of coercive antipropertarianism.

"One hypothesis common among the exosophontology community is that this is a pair of self-reinforcing memes generated at a period in human history where this was contingently true to some degree - enough for polits to make memes of it, anyway - and over the course of time, both sides became locked into playing out the parody memeplex foisted upon them by their enemies.

"The other hypothesis, popular among the more cynical part of the community, is that the species simply isn't very bright."