Chamath Palihapitiya
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Appearances Over Time
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to have a new frontier.
Maybe what we can do is send all these progressive socialists off to Greenland to tame this new frontier.
I want to go.
They get the grit.
We need that spirit of the frontier of cowboys, of exploration.
It's called Texas, dude.
It's called Texas.
Remember the Alamo.
We're making our last stand here.
You know, it is kind of interesting, as I remember from my high school history, I think the frontier was officially over by 1910.
I think that was
Meaning every longitude basically had been fully explored.
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, resentments that build up in the economy, people could always just go west and become pioneers and find new territory.
That's right.
And in a way, that's what America was for Europe, right?
I mean, Europe was sort of this overcrowded place.
It was oppressive.