Keep your concealed weapon permit Don!
On Feb 9, 3:45 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've always wanted to be a loved and revered despot. My mother always
> told me to aim high.
>
> dj
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:50 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Survivors elsewhere? We'd have to do a pre-emptive strike! With Don
> > in reproductive mode, we'd build him a rutting frame in the interests
> > of efficiency. We'd have to have a law preventing women singing "Here
> > comes the new boss, just like the old boss". Does this Utopia come
> > with a large, crashed US Cargo plane? I've always wanted to be a
> > cargo cultist.
>
> > On 9 Feb, 08:19, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> To continue we will have to establish what basic conditions we are
> >> starting out with. I was thinking more of a new earth, Don, that is,
> >> one that has experienced cataclysmic continental shift, let's say a
> >> new Pangaea but now the inhabitants are remnants of the now modern
> >> world, a population of 600 with women proportionally the larger group
> >> (happy Don?), no guns, no conveniences, no houses etc, only the
> >> intelligence to carry forth a new world. We can assume a collective
> >> effort to produce food and other survival necessity. However, looking
> >> beyond that I don't see the need to establish any governmental entity
> >> or economic system which may once again spurn greed and criminality.
> >> Equality would be my aim, food for all and a tribal sense within the
> >> communal living environment. If there would be any assumption it
> >> would be the diversity in skills, trades and knowledge that will
> >> ultimately lend itself to the collaboration of minds for a collective
> >> prosperity. No need for arms Don as your group is all there is. This
> >> exercise presents the opportunity to create a culture that can avoid
> >> the pitfalls of our past history and the conditions under which we
> >> live today. It's a stretch indeed but I would give it a try
> >> nonetheless.
> >> You started out good with the helping one another, singing, dancing
> >> and picking daisies but resolved with the need to be heavily armed.
> >> I'll take that as a result of your assumption of other survivors
> >> elsewhere. Your allusion to dissidence and crushing opposition leaves
> >> me to wonder if you would be a suitable shepherd of the new fold.
> >> Let's just say the entire populace is congenial and open to equitable
> >> leadership.
>
> >> On Feb 9, 1:03 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > I'm going to assume the realities of survival apply in your scenario.
> >> > Otherwise I'd say we'd all get along fabulously and busy ourselves
> >> > industrially helping one another and singing and dancing and picking
> >> > pansies and what not.
>
> >> > My first and most pressing concern would be repopulating the earth.
> >> > Since I'm the chosen leader that must mean I'm the best example or
> >> > what 'the People' want for their future. So I guess I'd have to start
> >> > out with a bunch of wives and get busy. I'd need to exert total and
> >> > complete totalitarian control over the populace but lead with wisdom
> >> > and compassion. A delicate balance, to be sure. Deifying myself
> >> > would come in handy but might prove difficult.
>
> >> > I would reward knowledge and information and encourage skills required
> >> > for survival. Education would become paramount. Responding quickly
> >> > and harshly to any dissidence would prevent costly and unnecessary
> >> > debate. Solidifying control and crushing the opposition before they
> >> > can organize is important. This will prevent civil war. I would
> >> > assume that there had to be other pockets of survivors out there in
> >> > the world and I would send emissaries out searching for them to see
> >> > how we might trade with them. I would also, of course, make sure my
> >> > group was heavily armed to protect ourselves from marauding
> >> > 'outsiders.'
>
> >> > dj
>
> >> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > > "Lets Say", the earth as we know it was destroyed by whatever device
> >> > > humanity heaped upon itself. All that survived are gathered in one
> >> > > place, and you are the chosen leader. The earth is yours to do as you
> >> > > wish.
> >> > > Surely you will want to create a new culture, purged of the calamities
> >> > > and atrocities noted in the annals of human history.
> >> > > Where do you begin? The people are waiting.
>
> >> > > Do you have a master plan?
>
> >> > > Do you have some idea of what you think would be the ideal culture?
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