manifest destiny

Wherever you find humans, you find wickedness. Not much of an original observation, but I'm reading a book about the destruction of the Comanche Indians, and since it's a rather unpleasant topic it's hard not to refer to it on today's post.

Wherever you find barely habitable land, you find humans. The scale of a country like the U.S. allows for nearly every possible climate and geography. Settlement patterns prior to the arrival of Europeans tended to leverage the vastness and variety of the landscape. Population densities in North America, by all accounts that I've read, were low. But even in this circumstance, there were disputes, wars, and all forms of attendant misery over resources. It seems that neither density and poverty, or the lack thereof, can stem aggression. It's too soon to tell if this new century will be a peaceful and prosperous one.

Today's graphic and yesterday's graphic were done by me, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.