Monday, April 26, 2010

Things They Should Invent: anarchy island

There are a number of very loud people in the world who seem to be opposed to any form of government whatsoever.

They should get their own island.

Determine approximately how many people fall into this group, find an island of suitable size that's reasonably inhabitable (i.e. more like Salt Spring Island than Baffin Island), buy out any current inhabitants at a generous price, and let anyone who doesn't want government to go live on Anarchy Island. Relocating to Anarchy Island would be made as easy as possible (perhaps even a modest grant for cases where money's a problem, if anarchists would be willing to accept a grant) but there's no help whatsoever if you want to leave.

Then once this gets off the ground, all the anarchists will be out of the way and those of us who want to live in a society can continue to do so without having to constantly justify the fact of society.

1 comment:

laura k said...

The first thing I thought of was "Anarchy Island? Is that a new name for Manhattan?"