The Apolyton Island

[Provost Harrison]

Well, erm, to give Giancarlo something to do

[chequita guevara]

Do we want all 17,000 Apolytoners? Do we include the lurkers? I think we should just take Off-Topic posters.

Personally, I think most of us would die of starvation and disease.

[chequita guevara]

We could put him in the . . . no, I don't think I want to be banned.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Personally, I think most of us would die of starvation and disease.

Well at least we'll have salt

[orange]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Do we want all 17,000 Apolytoners? Do we include the lurkers? I think we should just take Off-Topic posters.

Personally, I think most of us would die of starvation and disease.

Like I said, just the most active ones (mainly OTers...2500 people maybe?)

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by orange


Like I said, just the most active ones (mainly OTers...2500 people maybe?)

More like 400.

[Skanky Burns]

What would the DLs look like??

You see a group of people walking around, but when you get closer to them, you see they are all the same people!!

[chequita guevara]

Obviously we'd have a communist society to start with. We'd have to democratically organize things if we hoped to survive.

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Obviously we'd have a communist society to start with. We'd have to democratically organize things if we hoped to survive.

Surely you jest! Naturally, we'd start out libertarian, what with absolutely no rules except don't kill anyone.

[chequita guevara]

Yes, but those of us who excercised our right to create a democraitc communist society would survive, while the rest of you starved to death doing your own thing. Though, being the charitable humanitarian types we are, we'd leave bits of food out for you to survive.

[orange]

no I agree with Chegitz. It would start as a comune...we'd probably all do something and split up the food, shelter, etc. between us. Then after that it could either get better or worse depending on how we organized ourselves

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yes, but those of us who excercised our right to create a democraitc communist society would survive, while the rest of you starved to death doing your own thing. Though, being the charitable humanitarian types we are, we'd leave bits of food out for you to survive.

It would end up communist, certainly. We'd be a big happy kibbutz!

[Ming]

Re: The Apolyton Island

Originally posted by orange
a rather large undiscovered island with abundant natural resources.

Who needs a stinking GOVERNMENT to survive when there are abundant resourses...
*don't people even bother reading the first post*

[orange]

Originally posted by Goingonit
It would end up communist, certainly. We'd be a big happy kibbutz!

Once again, I see it the other way around. Starting as a commune with a simple organization of who will work on what (food gathering, shelter building, hunting, etc.) and capitalism and factional differences would/could develop slowly or abruptly based on how we continued to organize ourselves.

[chequita guevara]

It's not an ideological prediliction for communism that makes me say this. An organized group would be far more able to tackle the problems of creating shelter and gathering food than individuals would. Also, since few of us are inclined to take orders from others, almost certainly we would decide things democratically, together in a council. Distribution would be based on some combination of need plus effort.