@mia @AnimeTradCath @BowsacNoodle @CatLord @DiamondMind @Inginsub @LordMordred @NecroKvntPuke @SoyMagnus @Terry @Waerloga @amerika @anonymous @dcc @ehhh @gh0st @ins0mniak @jasonl8446 @kumicota @lunarised @marine @mischievoustomato @peemasons @pressure @pwm @redneonglow @sjw @thebitchisback @threat @tiskaan @triodug @warmbeverageenjoyer Well, not necessarily, but if you're trying to understand the aggregate, you look at how the aggregate behaves. Uncle Ted lived in the woods and he was fine, but he stepped outside the aggregate. People that went off to settle new places, it's safe to reason that they were kind of Done with Society in one sense or the other: either they wanted to fuck off and didn't care where to, or they expected more prosperity would follow fucking off than from sticking around.

We've got some percentage of the populace that instinctively wants to fuck off, and some percentage of them do, but we've always had that: it stands to reason that there must be a benefit to the rest of the system to have people that complain about wanting to fuck off around, and further benefit to them fucking off. Modularity is an insurance policy.