If I wrote the script for the world play
The following would be the case:
1. African-Native-American openly lesbian President of the United States
2. The 50 states and various territories would be organized into numerous tiny bioregional cooperative collectives.
3. Our police force and military would be composed of genetically-engineered "Huggy Bears" that are free of violent urges and only operate in defense mode. They would embrace felons in an inescapable but non-lethal bear hug. They would carry shields rather than weapons, a la Captain America.
4. Violent criminals who managed to elude the Huggy Bears would be dealt with by Tar Babies that get mushy when you hit or shoot them. Think Uncle Remus. The more one fights, the more one is trapped.
5. "Personal assault vehicles", a.k.a. private cars, would be illegal. Only public transit and foot-driven vehicles allowed in my Utopia!
6. Every city would have substantial, regularly tended gardens and "wild places" set aside for the chthonic, verdant powers around and underneath us.
7. Both energy and information would be free, but everyone has to work for the common good. Entertainment must be homemade from scratch.
8. Mandatory five hour lunch-siestas every day.
9. Computer programming would merge with Aikido: AikIT
10. No more pampered children and sullen teenagers! Everybody who wants to eat has to work!!!
11. There would be "silence shoppes" where people could literally buy a bit of peace and quiet.
12. Alternative sexuality would be encouraged by the government to improve public morale and lower the population. Non-breeders would receive tax breaks and promotions, rather than the current rewards for pumping out babies.
13. Those who do not wish to belong to my world will be permitted to retreat into virtual reality or go to outer space and create their own ideal way of life. The former will have to sign over all their assets to pay for a lifetime of state welfare and electronic sustenance.
1. African-Native-American openly lesbian President of the United States
2. The 50 states and various territories would be organized into numerous tiny bioregional cooperative collectives.
3. Our police force and military would be composed of genetically-engineered "Huggy Bears" that are free of violent urges and only operate in defense mode. They would embrace felons in an inescapable but non-lethal bear hug. They would carry shields rather than weapons, a la Captain America.
4. Violent criminals who managed to elude the Huggy Bears would be dealt with by Tar Babies that get mushy when you hit or shoot them. Think Uncle Remus. The more one fights, the more one is trapped.
5. "Personal assault vehicles", a.k.a. private cars, would be illegal. Only public transit and foot-driven vehicles allowed in my Utopia!
6. Every city would have substantial, regularly tended gardens and "wild places" set aside for the chthonic, verdant powers around and underneath us.
7. Both energy and information would be free, but everyone has to work for the common good. Entertainment must be homemade from scratch.
8. Mandatory five hour lunch-siestas every day.
9. Computer programming would merge with Aikido: AikIT
10. No more pampered children and sullen teenagers! Everybody who wants to eat has to work!!!
11. There would be "silence shoppes" where people could literally buy a bit of peace and quiet.
12. Alternative sexuality would be encouraged by the government to improve public morale and lower the population. Non-breeders would receive tax breaks and promotions, rather than the current rewards for pumping out babies.
13. Those who do not wish to belong to my world will be permitted to retreat into virtual reality or go to outer space and create their own ideal way of life. The former will have to sign over all their assets to pay for a lifetime of state welfare and electronic sustenance.