Should we form an "Aspie Island" nation?

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14 Nov 2007, 3:51 pm

So if we get 30 people in who can each drop $1k... yeah this is doable. Not everyone would have to live there full-time, of course, really one permanent resident would be all we'd need.

The expenses of supplying electricity, fresh water, and actual building construction I feel would be a lot more than buying the land itself. However, this all could be done over time rather than all at once.

Another problem: how to commute to work and back? Would we need a small fleet of boats?

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14 Nov 2007, 5:07 pm

As much as I love the idea of an Aspie community being so empowered, the potential for Disaster is enormous. Huxley was right:

http://www.huxley.net/bnw/sixteen.html

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"Well, you can call it an experiment in rebottling if you like. It began in A.F. 473. The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and re-colonized with a specially prepared batch of twenty-two thousand Alphas. All agricultural and industrial equipment was handed over to them and they were left to manage their own affairs. The result exactly fulfilled all the theoretical predictions. The land wasn't properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories; the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed; all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were. Within six years they were having a first-class civil war. When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island. Which they did. And that was the end of the only society of Alphas that the world has ever seen."

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14 Nov 2007, 8:42 pm

That statement's.... deeply ironic, considering what it was Huxley was really trying to get across.

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15 Nov 2007, 1:10 am

We'd need a volunteer army, and a police force but is doable.
We'd need healthcare, and fire services, and support infrastructure.

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15 Nov 2007, 9:31 am

I'd think pretty much everyone initially involved would need to have a pioneer spirit -- the patience and perseverance to "rough it" while we get the infrastructure set up.

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15 Nov 2007, 11:25 am

I don't think that it's a good idea.

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15 Nov 2007, 12:20 pm

That plan would backfire so bad, its too hard to keep together a bunch of people that just want to be alone.

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15 Nov 2007, 3:28 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

I don't think that it's a good idea.

Well, it may not be, but it's still a fun idea for people to play around with. I understand some people can't find fun in something of which they feel they know the end result, but many people have fun brainstorming on pretty much whatever topic.

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15 Nov 2007, 9:38 pm

We could get a bunch of money and hire cheap labour from some remote part of the world. And then build the gleaming spires of our city straight up into the sky.

Anyways, we could make our food by fishing and gardening.

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16 Nov 2007, 8:54 am

about 1 of 100 people are aspies apperntly and nearly all fo them are left handed so we ned to make left handed everything.
all hai the left haded doorhandle, the left handed tv the left handed kettle!

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17 Nov 2007, 1:02 am

littlesmiley wrote:

about 1 of 100 people are aspies apperntly and nearly all fo them are left handed

Really? I've never heard that before. I'm a rightie.

Back on topic, what would make the difference is how committed we are and how much work we'd be willing to put in.

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17 Nov 2007, 2:57 am

Isn't this Ana54's Idea?

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17 Nov 2007, 10:31 am

ShadesOfMe wrote:

Isn't this Ana54's Idea?

To whatever extent it is, she can take credit -- I got excited about the idea, and had a few new angles to throw in (like the island part).

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17 Nov 2007, 7:21 pm

No... I'm certain someone mentioned islands before. This would cause such media Attention...

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17 Nov 2007, 7:38 pm

Hmm.

Well, it depends. If the island was run in such a way that was aspie-friendly, with certain laws and systems that keep social contact optional, then maybe people would benefit. A what, small island the size of Guernsey? You'd have a heck of a job preventing overcrowding, and ownership would be initially very expensive.

Somewhere in Canada, you could buy some unused territory, including islands, to buy an area just a big bigger than Luxembourg.

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17 Nov 2007, 8:51 pm

Honestly, I had the idea of buying an island a long time before coming here, but the purpose was different (independent micronation that would finance itself through hosting anonymous webservers and proxies outside of any nation's information laws).

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