Paradigm Shift Time Again.
That How to Start Your Own Country programme is a breath of fresh air, isn't it? One of the few smile-inducing things on television these days, I reckon.
...but it's an interesting concept as well. Although the jokey nature of the programme makes it unsuitable for serious analysis, it's still interesting that they eventually settled on a country with a leader and immigration policy and territory and things. What would be really interesting would be to initiate a sort-of-nation using modern viral techniques. You could, for example, implement total democracy via a simple citizen-polling system. Less society-as-static-organism than society-as-viral-meme-grouping. Once you've got the actual voting system going, you can eliminate any leaders and run everything via high-speed debate and direct referenda rather than representation. Furthermore, you could implement an exchange of goods that wouldn't get dragged down by the normal human drives of greed and corruption, because the essential needs of the citizens are taken care of within the larger states they may inhabit. Basically, the best points of artistic communes, /talk, communism, and liberal democratic states. Viral Conceptual Nations. What'dyou think?
posted by Withiel @ 9:52 pm
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Also, in the case of the sort of society I'm discussng here, all the citizens would be there by their own free will, and would only join in the first place if they were attracted by the original manifesto, therefore automatically weeding out the apathetic, the people with metal plates in their heads who like the death penalty, and Evil Fuckface Joe Sportsbar. A society to which you consent would also have a certain amount of good-will towards it - if there's always an opt-out clause, you can hardly complain.
Yes. Also, if no one else treats you as if you're in the state, you're not in it.
Yes. We should implement this. Soon. I have read too much of Grant Morrison's
NeW-X-MeN and have Plans.
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