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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:20 am Post subject: WELCOME TO RAPTURE |
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http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading
while i appreciate the attempts to establish libertopia (and other -topias) in a hyperconnected modern age, i'm also really afraid of drowning. the article details some of the earlier schemes along these lines (isolationist reboots of human culture) but there's a whole history of various kinds of these attempts spurred by a variety of factors - social and religious pressures or responses; socialist and other political utopic drives; to live outside of the established cultural order; or to even just mildly tweak the existing framework.
it's obviously doable but still, i am frightened. _________________
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helicopterp .
Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Let's call a prequel "MuleShock" and set it at Brook Farm. _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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Swimmy .
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Haven't other attempts at libertopia been tried before? Haven't they failed miserably? _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: |
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yes, yes they have.
BUT THIS WILL BE DIFFERENT.
actually, one of my pet things is communal arrangements outside of the boundaries of normal society. i briefly considered doing a project on it (i know some folks who know some folks who live in one in south carolina) because while i find the entire concept rather dingbatty, i find it's execution very interesting. and the day-to-day challenges of dealing with human nature fighting political utopianism of one stripe or another quite fascinating. _________________
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Cocaine Socialist .
Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 8
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, i forgot about those guys! no small wonder why.
on the other hand i've always said there's going to be a lot of weird outgrowths from the ron paul thing, and so far as that's an obvious bet that even dead people couldn't lose, i've been right. _________________
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