Who wants to join me on my island?

Don’t take me – I’ll be whining about sand in my flippy floppies the whole time.

It sounds fun to visit, but I like my modern comforts. And what happens when you guys all have kids? Who will the kids mate with?

@Blackberry There’s plenty biodiversity in 100 people.

Hmmm, yeah. Good luck with the island, though. : )

Sounds like fun but I’m with @Blackberry – I like certain modern comforts too much.

Is the island centrally air conditioned?

My father-in-law would be first on the boat. Any and all conveniences have been added to his home simply because of his wife and sons have have harassed him to the point of giving in, which is quite a challenge.

No central heat or air, water runs from a spring and requires frequent attention to keep it from freezing, he spends hours in the woods hunting, fishing, observing, walking. This man has no use for a phone, tv, microwave or even steps up to the porch. He made a living in IT but has not been on the computer in the years since retirement. iPod, iPad, cell phone? Absolutely not interested. The car is simply for driving to different fishing locations. He exhausts me.

Hell no, I love tech

What a pleasant fantasy to indulge in…

While I can appreciate your desire to buy the island, who do you think will sell its sovereignty? The days of buying, say, Manhattan Island from unsuspecting natives – who didn’t quite comprehend the finality of selling sovereign title in the way that Europeans did – Europeans who could then enforce their title with steel and guns – well those days are over for now.

Who do you propose in your band of back-to-nature campers will mount the coast guard, navy, army, and air force necessary to maintain your independence? (An air force especially, because without air superiority over whatever invaders plan to take your island back – for example, the tax collectors from the country who won’t recognize your secession – none of the other defense forces will matter much. And then the band of guerrillas you plan to mount a Peter Pan insurgency in the hills and forests will be summarily wiped out by trained, disciplined and well-led ground forces who don’t share your desire to “go native”, but just want to wipe out your troublesome band and get back home to their televisions and air conditioning. The coast guard, navy and army will be required to protect the air base. Or do you suppose you can contract out that work?)

So be sure to save some funds in your island purchase price for the well defended air strip (because your air force needs a place to take off from, to refuel and maintain the hardware, after all) and the planes, and the fuel, and the ongoing training and patrols and so forth. A hundred, you say?

Hmm… good luck with that.

Private islands are no trick if you have the money. Your title will be defended by the host country – as long as you recognize the host country’s sovereignty over the island and pay the taxes or whatever else is required to support the host country. Whether I like it or not or whether you recognize it or not, “independence”, at least for now, is an elusive dream. Maybe when that dream is realized, you’ll wish it hadn’t been, too, because when that day comes anyone who wants the island more than you do – “payment” be damned – and has a better strategy and the necessary force to take it from you, will do so to establish their idea of utopia.

I’ll drop by for weekends only and bring stuff for the locals!

It is a lovely fantasy. But “very primitavely”? I think that would grow quite tiresome in a short period of time. Like the first time I really wanted a toilet…..or a shower…...or a cold drink, etc.

I wish you the best of luck. It sounds like the kind of place I feel like running away to when I get fed up with all of our technology. Like some others, I have become spoiled by creature comforts. The communes that I remember reading about from the 60’s have not all disappeared. They are now referred to as intentional communities and there are a fair number of them. Is your island outside of the 14 mile territorial limit of any existing country?

What about health care? If you develop appendicitis or fall out of a tree and break something, how far away will medical help be?

Sounds good, but I am forever dependent on the pharmaceutical industry. Living ‘primitive’ is possible only if you are eternally blessed with perfect health. Good luck.

@bewailknot there will be people trained in medicine and such on the island.

Ah, that’s good. They’ll have training in medicine. However, since this is “primitive” living, there will be no electricity for running things like autoclaves to sterilize tools for operationd, no Xray or MRI, no diagnostic equipment, electric lights, heaters, refrigeration, that “technological” stuff.

Keep dreaming the dream.

@CWOTUS The idea is primitive. Not half primitive half spoiled. Fire/alcohol=sterilization.

@warriorwolfclaw: So access to medical technology is being spoiled? Do you believe in vaccines? Do you reckon some of the people on your island will be reproducing at some point?

Show me your Constitution, and then I’ll let you know. ;)

@bookish1 yes, in big population were epidemics are likely without yes, but in small communities were it’s not as likely no, and of course…. no were all just going to live there and grow old and die!
@Bagardbilla no constitution… me and a few others are in the process of making a rough draft of the laws.

@warriorwolfclaw: I see. So will birth control be allowed? Or is that a modern convenience for spoiled people as well?

@bookish1 haha I’ve realized this website is full of skeptics, and spoiled people. Not the type of people I’m looking for. Nothing wrong with that by the way. Everyone is different.

Bye all

Lol wow, this guys gonna end up dead.

It’s not skepticism, it’s logic.

I wasn’t being skeptical, I was wondering if his island paradise was going to have people having sex on it and if said people were going to be allowed to use birth control. But he seems to think they don’t need birth control AND they’re not going to be reproducing O_o Sure sounds like magical thinking to me!

I’m glad to be spoiled; it’s kept me alive since the age of 5.

Let’s raise our glasses to being spoiled! Hear! Hear!

Hey, who’s pouring, anyway? I need a new glass. This champagne’s a bit flat, isn’t it? Where’s our waitress gone off to? I wanted to order some peeled grapes, too.

@CWOTUS Sorry, but those blode’s with double d’s get me every time XD

“Blokes”?

Ah, “blondes”. Not that there’s anything wrong with the former.