diff --git a/we'll be monks in space.md b/we'll be monks in space.md index 440f665e3..8bac84200 100644 --- a/we'll be monks in space.md +++ b/we'll be monks in space.md @@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ I tell you, [[we will be monks in space]]. If you want to, anyway; we don't need First, think about it -- monks are only celibate because for most of human history they didn't have safe, effective contraception available. But we do. So we can achieve the same result (no kids that we can't afford environmentally or otherwise, or don't have a direct interest on), while optionally having sex, as long as it's all consensual and constructive. And we could still have as many kids as we want and our biosphere can support. Now, some monks have a religious zeal in them. Some people probably think the best do; but I like to think chill monks can do a lot for humanity, and in any interesting group there's heterogeneity. Chill monks can live with chill monks, and intense ones with intense ones, or they can prefer living in complementary groups and self-organize in that way. Either way it's fine; different spaceships can cultivate different [[cultures]]. + +- -> [[8]] (comes next).