Good point. Perhaps a really rich technology billionaire could start one though... He
or she would have the
political muscle to keep governments out. Millionaires already live on yachts to avoid
paying taxes in any country,
so why not a permanent colony in the sea outside teritorial waters as Marshall
Savage's book suggests. Populated by
programmers and other high tech folks.
The website is at http://www.millennial.org/
While I love the USA I think nation states are past their prime as an idea and are
becoming less relevant to what
we do. The CF community itself is an international group itself - people don't usually
look at the country someone
is from when they post to CF talk - just what they are saying. ;-)
- Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/
"Guy J. McDowell" wrote:
> The problem with initiating any sort of colony separate from a
> currently recognized power is that you undermine the authority of
> every established authority. And then you are overtaken and killed. Or
> at least forced into work camps to create the very munitions that will
> kill you. Case studies show only a handful of countries to EVER have
> been developed without allegiance to another state and then they
> really aren't independent are they? Sealand is one, but you wouldn't
> want to live there.
>
> Would any state make the same mistake England did with the U.S.? No.
> You cannot truly start a new country or state without weapons of mass
> destruction. Of course as developers we wield a different weapon, that
> can be used not to take life but other resources which can crumble a
> nation.
>
> There's a whole field of study on this called micronations, pretty
> fascinating really isn't it?
>
> Do you think I might have thought about this too much?? ;)
>
> Guy J. McDowell
> Webmaster
> Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters
> www.OFAH.org
>
> > Voting with time, money and energy. Wow what a great meme! Explains
> > why market ecomonies do better in the long run
> > that centrally controlled ones.
> >
> > Gee under this idea the less that actually happens in Washington DC
> > the more the country looks like what most
> > people spend time and money on wanting... So a tied race in house,
> > senate and president could be actually good!
> >
> > One of the ideas in "The Millennial Project : Colonizing the Galaxy
> > in Eight Easy Steps"
> > by Marshall T. Savage, Arthur Charles Clarke
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316771635/
> > is to set up citying in international waters that are not under any
> > current national government and are true
> > democracies. This could be an idea who's time has come... ;-)
>
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