The early Pilgrim settlers in America were the furthest thing from rugged individualists; they had an intensely collectivistic culture already in the Old World, and bringing that to the New World was the whole point of the enterprise. It's unlikely they would have survived in the harsh conditions if people were constantly splitting off to do their own thing. That did eventually happen however, once conditions were right (e.g. the Quakers).
This would be a better analogy to space colonization than the Little House on the Prairie-style homesteading of the 19th century.
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The early Pilgrim settlers in America were the furthest thing from rugged individualists; they had an intensely collectivistic culture already in the Old World, and bringing that to the New World was the whole point of the enterprise. It's unlikely they would have survived in the harsh conditions if people were constantly splitting off to do their own thing. That did eventually happen however, once conditions were right (e.g. the Quakers).
This would be a better analogy to space colonization than the Little House on the Prairie-style homesteading of the 19th century.
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