I know it never could or would work, but every so often I wish there was some imaginary huge tract of land that nobody had owned before…and I guess somehow didn’t affect the environment for all the assholes that want to play power games or pretend they could rule the world or just live lawlessly so they could be silo’ed off from society. Of course it would fall apart, innocent people would somehow end up in there. They’d probably end up attacking the rest of the world and I’m sure a myriad of other terrible problems. But man that’d be nice.
You should watch Westworld! It’s basically what you describe.
Sorry, you’re born too late. You would have loved 19th century colonialism. As long as you could get over the “uninhabited” part of course.
Everybody is assuming I want to take part in this. I want an imaginary zone for all the assholes to go to…
This is it 👍
Ive had similar thoughts about racially pure islands. Everyone’s happy. The race-supremacy people get to live among their own and the rest of us are free from their bullshit.
But then the children will have to be raised by racists
Since they’re racists they soon would find other random properties to segregate.
Even more adventurous and lawless and dangerous in earlier centuries.
As long as you could get over the “uninhabited” part of course.
They sure did back then, easy as pie.
And some very influential people want that era back. Incl. trampling on people already living there. [Techbroligarch “Freedom” Cities]
*See Australia, Taiwan, U.S.A., Japan
Society used to exile people, send them to penal colonies or some people that felt ostracized packed up and left Society. Where? To some of the grea open uninhabited or not so habitatated lands. Taking U.S.A. as an example, there where religious extremists who became unwelcome in Britain, so they left to a place they could practice thier beliefs without competition, America.
Every Society worked better because you didn’t need to imprison or kill people that where criminals and people that where ostracized somewhat had the option of making thier own land. Now every single piece of land is claimed there is nowhere to exile people and no where to just run to.
And see how that worked out
There is still Antarctica
Fair, can we start a Make Antarctica Great Agian and encourage some people to move to a “greener” pasture?
The ‘freedom’ they want only extends to having the freedom to do what they want regardless of how it impacts anybody else.
The vast majority of these people don’t want isolation. They need other people to exploit. Edit - or they want the freedom to exploit other natural resources (no doubt they see humans as a natural resource to be exploited) regardless of the impacts on other people, now or in the future.
What a bunch of selfish twats!
I thought you said Autozone and I was excited that someone else was also enthusiastic about a do-it-yourself auto repair shop
Fuck it, I’ll take an autonomous AutoZone!
That’s just called the USA
Nah but I’m stuck here., womp womp. I want a place people voluntarily go into. This is not based in reality lol. As I’ve gotten older and learned more about history, I realized what a cursed nation we are though…
As soon as people start having kids, you’re back to square one
Have you heard about what happened when libertarians took over Grafton, NH?
Ha that was a fascinating read. I guess bears are libertarian as well!
That sounds like you want to deport people
Yes. Somalia has 1,900 miles of coastline, a government that knows its place, and all the guns and wives you can afford to buy. Why have I never heard of this paradise before?
-Pierce Hawthorne
That was essentially why the US was founded.
But alas we were also assholes the whole time…
Honestly I’m more wishing the opposite was possible. Imagine a utopia to test out, UBI, communism etc… somewhere that capitalists aren’t going to sabatoge and declare war on it while it’s in it’s infancy.
Danish countries.
And…huh, it works.
I guess by “Danish countries” you mean scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland)? Then i regrettably have to inform you, that they are just slightly less horrendously capitalistic. Compared to the USA they probably seem like star trek though, so i get the sentiment.
I imagine it becoming a haven for profitable vices like drugs, gambling and prostitutes to make money off tourists.
So you’re saying someone would make their own country, with blackjack and hookers?
Sure. And in my imaginary head canon that is fine and everyone assumes the risk of going into that zone. Once again…this would never work.
So, Nevada?
MDMA legalised there?
Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM
Huh I’ve never seen this!
Spot on. Never seen that one before
If you were to write an isekai anime for this, it seems like this might be wildly popular in a The Boys kind of way
It would be easier to somehow trick those people into a matrix-style virtual reality where it’s literally the same as the current world at the point where they enter (so they don’t realize). Then they can act out whatever they want to do as they do in the real world with all the consequences, but instead affecting nothing in reality. Having an autonomous zone to act it out won’t work because they won’t be satisfied if the real world they perceive isn’t affected.
So we trick the red pilled into taking the blue pills…
