# Welcome To The Island!

This is the [freedom](freedom.md) island where [we](less_retarded_society.md) live. Many would call it [utopia](utopia.md), we just call it the Island for now -- it's not a country or nation, it has no flag or government, it's simply a place where we choose to spend our lives. If you feel like you don't fit anywhere in [today's world](21st_century.md), if you feel alone and alienated and just want to escape somewhere quiet and peaceful, you can be at home here. This island has [no owners](free_universe.md), no governments, politicians, [corporations](corporation.md), no businesses or [money](money.md), no need to [fight](fight_culture.md) for the place under the Sun, no [regulation of speech](political_correctness.md), no bullying. Simply be yourself and exist as best as you can. Take off your clothes if you want, no one wears them here. You can build yourself a hut on any free spot. Planting trees and making landscape works is allowed too. Basically we have [no laws](anarchism.md), just empathy and [love](love.md).

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```

- **`B`: [boat](boat.md)**: Here you can depart from the Island back to the cruel world. New people also arrive here, and sometimes we have to go to Normieland to retrieve stuff we can't yet make on our own.
- **`D`: [drummyfish's](drummyfish.md) house**: It's a plain bamboo hut near the beach, drummyfish lives here with the [dog](dog.md) who however often roams the whole Island and welcomes all the newcomers.
- **`E`: [education](education.md) area**: Place where people go to learn and teach, everyone is a teacher and student at the same time, flat rocks and cave walls on this side of island are conveniently used as a kind of blackboard.
- **`F`: the beach forum**: It's a beach where people naturally gather to discuss in groups.
- **`G`: [graveyard](graveyard.md)**
- **`I`: small island**: A small island on the coast, for those who want to be extra alone.
- **`T`: a modest [zen](zen.md) [temple](temple.md)**: It has nice view of the sea and we go meditate here.

## Details About Life On The Island

SUPER WORK IN PROGRESS

{ NOTE: Obviously this is fantasy, not everything could probably work like this in practice -- not in current times anyway -- I know that, OK? I know next to nothing about many specialized subjects like farming or keeping animals and I may be making up unrealistic bullshit here, however I still think as a whole the fantasy is very useful to guide us, practical problems are in the end just details that can almost always be solved by human ingenuity. Still I try to keep this borderline realistic, after all quite similar, more or less isolated communities exist all around the world. It's just a thinking exercise, you may try to follow along. ~drummyfish }

**Houses and shelters** are the easiest issue to solve, given the hot tropical climate. No heating or heat isolation is needed, houses can be very simple, built manually only from wood and stones. It suffices to have a roof protecting against rain and a few walls allowing some intimacy and personal space, although [privacy](privacy.md) is not really a thing here, even sex and defecation is commonly seen in public, it's a natural thing. No door locks are needed of course. The sea, caves and natural pools and waterfalls of sweet water in the jungle allow calming ourselves on very hot days, and they serve to maintain hygiene as well, we need no showers or toilets in most houses.

In **food** we are unfortunatelly not 100% self sufficient yet, mainly for the reasons of refusing to hunt animals while also not having large areas of farmable land on this relatively small, rocky island -- self sufficiency would be achieved if we resorted to fishing, but as long as this can be avoided we choose not to do it and look for other ways. We partially grow our own food and collect what's naturally present in the nature: some like to experiment with farming and others, usually women and children, make it part of their daily routine to walk the island and collect wild berries, mushrooms, coconuts, even seaweed. Although some strict vegans refuse this, some have also tried to keep animals -- with great care and love of course -- for example bees, but mainly chicken who give eggs -- again, they are never killed for food, they're kept roaming free and cared for with love. We have sweet water and salt on the island. This all is not enough in itself to feed everyone, but it helps significantly -- the rest of food is retrieved from Normieland where our groups depart regularly. There they usually split and go try to retrieve resources -- this is always a bit of adventure as we're still experimenting with what works and what doesn't. Some groups go and try to simply ask for money and food, or simply put: beg. Some ask charities and churches. Some go and try to make [money](money.md), e.g. by selling various things we made at the island, or by helping people, doing various "quick jobs": yes, even prostitution is an option, but some try street [art](art.md), some help the elderly carry their heavy bags, hoping to get a tip (but they'll do it even without a tip!), and so on. Others cash out money they got as voluntary donations through the Internet, for creating [free software](free_software.md) and [free art](free_culture.md). Meanwhile other group are given money, and they go and try to find the cheapest places to buy as much food and other resources as possible -- being regular customers buying larger quantities they are often able to get a good price for raw food right from the suppliers. No luxury or exotic food, no buying at supermarkets, no coffee, coca cola or icecream, no pizza and otherwise prepared food, only raw, nutrient stuff to prepare meals from -- this way we can buy a lot for very little money. We always keep in mind to not be evil, we are NOT trying to trick or rob people, we wear clothes that show who we are, just like e.g. Buddhist monks do; people know us, they know we come regularly and ask for food and many voluntarily help us. Some of them even joined us later on. We are aware that making [money](money.md) is [bullshit](bullshit.md), it's unfortunately necessary to do now and we try to minimize the dependence on it and the damaged done. If we spread our society to the whole world, the need for this kind of bullshit job would be eliminated.

**Death** is not feared among the inhabitants of the island, old die among friends and family, happy and peaceful. Many times during common nights together when we play [chess](chess.md) at the beach, adults tell stories and children run around playing in the waves, an old man falls asleep next to the fire, and in the morning simply doesn't wake up. Those wishing to voluntarily leave life, for whatever reason, are also provided with help, usually by those specialized in medicine and healthcare. The one who wants to die usually chooses [suicide](suicide.md) if he is able to perform it, so as to not put the burden of killing onto another inhabitant of the island, but if that's not possible someone will still help; the assistant gives advice and will oversee the act, just in case something went wrong and someone had to "finish the job", but there are now highly reliable and tested ways for quick and painless suicide -- one of them for example a kind of guillotine that simply quickly removes the head from the body after pulling a lever. Some choose to do this more or less privately, at night and only in the presence of the assistant, but it's also common for other people, even children and families to be present -- this is not a sad or traumatic event, it's a ritual of peacefully departing to the unknown, and people seeing others leave this way see there is nothing to fear, they see what it looks like when someone dies and are no longer afraid of it, it's another service the older provide to the young. Dead bodies are then usually buried at the sea so that the dead can make one last selfless service and feed the animals of the sea. They are never buried in ground or burned, that would be wasteful. Some experiment with [cannibalism](cannibalism.md) so as to provide others with the possibility to sometimes taste meat -- again, some refuse to participate in it, and that is fine, everything is voluntary and consensual.

TODO: birth control (anal, oral, fuck old/young, infertile, pregnant, ...)

## See Also

- [less retarded society](less_retarded_society.md)
- [Utopia](utopia.md)
- [Atlantis](atlantis.md)
- [Loquendo City](loquendo.md)
