I know it never could or would work, but every so often I wish there was some imaginary huge tract of land that nobody had owned before…and I guess somehow didn’t affect the environment for all the assholes that want to play power games or pretend they could rule the world or just live lawlessly so they could be silo’ed off from society. Of course it would fall apart, innocent people would somehow end up in there. They’d probably end up attacking the rest of the world and I’m sure a myriad of other terrible problems. But man that’d be nice.
It would be easier to somehow trick those people into a matrix-style virtual reality where it's literally the same as the current world at the point where they enter (so they don't realize). Then they can act out whatever they want to do as they do in the real world with all the consequences, but instead affecting nothing in reality.
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 8 months ago
“Walkaways” is a good piece of fiction about this
macncheese@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ooh interesting. Is it by Cory Doctorow?
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 8 months ago
I misread. Walkaways is about autonomous communities apart from capitalist society. They walk away from it. But the dangerous stuff isn’t part of the book. But it is a very good book.
Yes it is by Doctorow.