Thomas Jefferson envisioned a perfect world where all geography was exquisitely mapped out, every person in existence was accounted for, and every family owned and tilled a small-acre-square pixel of land. Now, you might think we'd almost immediately run out of land if we all lived like that, but what your weak, PlayStation-addled brain doesn't realize is what if the frontier went on forever? What if there is, actually, infinite land on an infinite globe and everyone who currently lives on it doesn't deserve it because they don't have as much gold as you? What's that you're whining about now? Who will work all these farms? Why, it's simple! Either enslave the undeserving who already live there or start cranking out a family. We live in the Infinite Frontier! The Prosperity Can Never End! Surely nothing like, say, being unable to grow tomatoes on a rocky, 45 degree slope at an elevation of 10,000 feet will get in the way of our pixelation of the planet. It's Chapter 2 of "The Utes Must Go!"

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(00:21:13) The Discussion Zone

Our book is "The Utes Must Go!" American Expansion and the Removal of a People by Peter Decker. I can't find this book from the publisher anymore, so here's a buy link for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Abebooks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. I found my copy in a box of free books outside a bookstore at the mall five years ago. So you could try that too.

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