Jennifer Reitz's "The Ishtar Crisis"

So, I navigated to Chatoyance's website and finally ate some of her non-pony works, in book form.

http://www.pasteldefender.com/ishtarmain.html

well, what I can say ... I found those quotes quite important to my line of thinking, was something like this really implemeneted somewhere, were there positive results, how long they lasted?

from ch.1

Two years earlier, when they decided to create the Harvey Milk Community School, Tala's friends drafted her to organize the curriculum and find good teachers. They decided to leave literacy, math and science to the public schools. Students would come to the Harvey Milk School to learn how to be human beings. They could also learn specialized skills usually taught only to the children of the rich.

A community school program wouldn't move a street family up to the secure mansions of Woodside, but it could keep knowledge in the hands of ordinary people. The school was free. Donations were always accepted, never required."

[...]
" "The difference is people who've done things in the real world. People who are competent in their lives. People like you and me and Dave Laurier. We'll teach students how to be more than just workers...we'll teach them to think. The public schools train kids to be drones. We'll educate them to be functional human beings. Andy nibbled on his forefinger as he listened. "Hmm, sounds kind of subversive...I like it. But I've gotta tell you, this sounds like a pretty serious commitment."

well, this and one little bit of urgent advice definitely sounds like most important REAL messages of this book, technology being much less important, even if moderatory detailed...

One little bit of urgent advice:

Tala was about to spill her fuzzy water. "Look here, Senator. I don't know what it's like where you come from, but I've got some pretty clear memories of growing up in the streets. When life was handed to me, I didn't ask questions. Nobody I knew got the same breaks I got...some of them did better, most of them did worse. A few of them got bad breaks and died from it."
"Look lady, you took your lucky breaks and threw them away because you got into a snit with the people who funded your university research."
"That's partly true, Mallory. I nearly sold out my soul for a soft life, doing the most evil high-tech research I can imagine. Because of my decisions back then, I ended up here with you today. Whether that's good or bad doesn't matter much...it's all been done. I took care of myself by doing things the way I thought they had to be done. And it cost me my hard-earned social position."

For me, this one is one single most important TO DO part from whole thing... while you probably will realize this only AFTER you run into reality of very depleted human world ...

Anyway, there is recurring question how space exploitation will bring any diversity to deeply broken human social traditions? Because if you stay on planet just hour away of flight time from you broken home ..broken home will hovering above you in no time (historically speaking) and just force you this way or other way to become part of it again .....