In the first video I bemoan the apparently Quixotic attempt by the design scientists to change the world for the better, by making waves of a nerdy nature. Who cares about polyhedrons right?
In the middle of that telling, I veer off into talking about the rise and fall of Quakers as a political force.
The anti-slavery stance was less the death knell, in terms of political influence, than the wish to establish a Peaceable Kingdom with N8V ("native") peoples.
Pennsylvania was soon overtaken by people of a different mindset.
In the second video, I take up the epic saga of Quakers fighting outward wars, up through the alternative national service camp chapter.
These latter could serve as a source of ideas for service camps to come. Or not. We're of two minds (at least) when it comes to the "camp" meme, so lets just explore and take inventory in a science fiction context.
This third video was recorded before either of the other two. You can follow the "service camps" thread back through time in these blogs, and even longer through the history I reference.
