So Michelle decided the light box was going to play a new "reality" show called
Utopia last night. Being very tired from fence building, I didn't fight it.
Maybe I should have.
Its exactly what one would expect. They found the 15 most selfish, immature, conflicting narcissistic personalities with poor communication skills they could and then put then in a 5 acre lot together. Every one of these people has some ideal utopia in their minds that they are all to eager to impose on other people. The Five acre lot has cameras everywhere, Truman Show Style, and you ( yes YOU!) the lucky audience member can even log into the internet to watch the feeds from various cameras 24/7.
So first off everyone brings a their own load of stuff, and they are (arbitrarily) told they have to divvy up a much smaller crate and decide which of the groups possessions will be included ( as a wonderful contrived way to get conflict right off the bat) . Michelle asked "if this is Utopia, and there are no rules but what they make, why don't they just decide that they won't do it and will keep all of the stuff they brought?" They don't and of course set to squabbling and having tantrums just as the producers hoped. It never occurs to them to just assign 1/15th of the crate to each person and then use it as currency.
"Who wants this bow, adjustable to any size and pull, to be available" and see how many people are willing to give up some of their personal space in that crate for that item. Not every one has to agree ( Liberals always want to reach a 100% agreement for any given decision - which means no decisions are made) and no one who doesn't want to part with space for that object has to. Oh sorry, property rights would be civilized and offensive..
The compound has running water, a hole in the ground ( that presumably runs to a septic), electricity at the front gate, a basic little house, barn etc. They have $5000 in a safe-- which presumably every member has access to (so what is the point in having a safe?) which can be used to purchase things from the "outside world". They have two cows, a flock of chickens, some flour, some jugs of wine and so forth. Probably enough food to last the month ( the end of which will apparently see the replacement of a cast member.. whats a reality show without the ability to vote people "off the island")
So they have to turn this bare bones, under capitalized ( but beautifully landscaped) facility into a sustainable farm in about a month. I couldn't
So what is the first thing they do?
Right. Surrounded by cameras, live fed on the internet and then edited for network broadcast, the young women of the group decide to go skinny dipping. Then out comes the 180 proof alcohol. One guy then process to get so drunk he is on the verge of sexually assaulting the women, and gets into an altercation with one of the young women who is shortly thereafter removed from the compound for de-hydration , constant vomiting and the other fun symptoms of alcohol poisoning.
Then the sun comes up. Day two. Time to get to work right? No. Now its time to have a kangaroo court to decide if our drunken and offensive male gets voted off the island that day.
Is it all scripted? Its possible. Are there Moles inciting the stupid behavior? Probably. However, real or scripted, Michelle and I were struck about how the women in this group were the lynch pin - if the women don't uphold the typical social conventions, the whole framework of behavior beings to fall apart. Eve tasted of the Apple, offered it to Adam and he took it.
If the women misbehave, the men are sure to follow. Which of course is the whole point of feminism. The women chosen for the show ( which include of course the polyamorous) are of the feminist ilk. They want to prance around naked and then blame the men if they look. Which led Michelle and I to our second revelation :
Politically Correct Feminism is the American female dominated form of Sharia Law.Sharia is basically a set of rules based on the premise that women are evil and must be controlled, so that men don't have to be responsible for their own actions. Feminist "political correctness" ( as found on most college campuses these days) is basically a set of rules that assumes men are evil and must be controlled, so that women don't have to be responsible for their own actions. Because a woman should be able to parade here naked body around town and expect that men will leave her alone and not notice. And if they do notice, the men should be fitted with blinders and restraints they prevent them from looking below a woman's eyes.
Anyway, after the "trial" in which he was put on probation, there was a half heart attempt at doing "work" - which was largely each person doing what htey felt they wanted to do. For the group of "liberated women" that meant more skinny dipping, and lazing on the grass while discussing their mensies. (I sh*t you not) and if they would be open to sleeping with each other.. And then Bambi comes hopping across - and the woman who is supposedly good with a Bow and styles herself as a Katness , jumps up , and amazingly takes the creature down with a single quick shot. . No, just kidding. She says "aw" with the other women. Because, its not like they need food.. Meanwhile a number of the men, some of whom appear to be chosen for their hot headed-ness and inability to control their tempers, get in a fight over if they will cook and eat a chicken found dead in a coup that morning. ( no one seems to inspect the body or make any real attempt to determine why it died.. one just smells it and says "its still good!" - and it might be - if it was pecked to death by the other chickens. But what if it died of some disease?)
Also There is a fundamentalist pastor (I got heathens a plenty right here) who had refused to go near the lake for 3 days because of these women and their behavior. . and on the third day one of these women notices it and arranges with the other women that maybe there could be "an hour" where the women would vacate and pastor could bathe and cool off...
Perhaps the shows editors are just cutting any serious discussions of what to do because they are boring, and all they want to show are fights and nude bodies.
But no one seems to be taking anything seriously. They know they can walk out the door and get food, so no one is seriously trying to make this place sustainable -- and given what they have to work with, I doubt they CAN make is sustainable - which of course is by design and will introduce even more drama as 15 douche-bags compete to make themselves look the biggest fool on the show. There were short periods where the one "prepper" woman ( single mother idiot liberal who was also skinny dipping) was suggesting a chicken tractor etc, but it was to individuals not to the group.. so a group effort is probably not going to happen. I am sure as the season progress someone "steals" money from the cache to go buy groceries ( Booze) , and few people get some food production going and then refuse to share because the others sat in the lake drinking..
Of course, Michelle was interested because she was hoping that there might actually be interesting discussions about what to do, how to do it, and what a "Utopian" society would look like.. and it may be a fun exercise for us here.. So what would you do and say to these morons? If you didn't have morons to deal with, how would you attempt to govern this little farm (assuming it IS possible to make it sustainable with available resources.. say $150,000, and not $5000) and what rules, rituals, processes and methods would you think might be efficacious?)