[Emma]

Imagine we are all sent back to the stone age, you have been selected as the leader of a 1000 survivors. What would be your plan?

Here is mine:
First I would split the group into 10 groups of a 100. A recent study revealed that a 100 strong community is the perfect recipe for harmony, as people all know each other and there are enough people to contribute for a working society.
So after each group has gone their ways to build their community, I would gather my group and plan . First would be to figure out how many of each trade is needed to support the community (farmers, builders, doctors, teachers..), and make sure there are enough people to fill these roles without having too many of each.
I would get rid of currency. As the community is small, everybody will have to contribute one form or another. Those who can't for one reason or another will be supported.
Everything will be free, there will be a communal stash and market giving away food, supplies. Again the small size of the community will prevent people from abusing it, if someone is being too greedy it will show up very quickly.
Of course families will look after themselves first. Builders will have better houses, farmers more food...The more hardworking the family is, the wealthier it will be but to be part of the community, each adult will have to contribute one form or another.
There will be contacts and trades with other communities of course, exchanging our surplus for theirs.
Efforts would be made to keep the population low, not by preventing people from having children but by setting new communities when the population has doubled.
This way the continent may fill up with many small cities, all in touch with each other. Science and technology will happen on a wider scale, not limited to each community. And of course every improvements in our civilization will have to be carefully thought through so it doesn't break the harmony of man and nature.

[OilIsMastery]

Perfect society is an oxymoron.

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" (Romans 3:10)

[Plantagenet]

A primitive, non-technological society where women die in childbirth, and lives are unneccesarily cut short by infections, measles, polio, influenza and other easily cured and preventable diseases is far from perfect.

[dbruning]

Noble idea, but I'm not sure it's possible to attain. Humans are flawed in so many ways, I'm fairly certain any attempt at perfection will be unachieveable.

From what I've seen in history, even if harmony and fairness reigned in your community, outsiders would surely invade, burn everything, and kill most people - perhaps enslaving the survivors. The only way I see a perfect society is....we remove the humans. Perhaps a different, kinder species would find their way to perfection. Humans haven't.

[Grifter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A') primitive, non-technological society where women die in childbirth, and lives are unneccesarily cut short by infections, measles, polio, influenza and other easily cured and preventable diseases is far from perfect.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Emma', 'A') recent study revealed that a 100 strong community is the perfect recipe for harmony

[jboogy]

probably either copy the amish without the sexual repression and pagan idolatry, or something like caligula's time with me being the emporer or at least the guy that has to "look after" the concubines."AM I NOT MERCIFUL"?----Commodus....."My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius"-----Russell Crowe
"Let me show you how to wash that"----Jboogerus

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'N')oble idea, but I'm not sure it's possible to attain. Humans are flawed in so many ways, I'm fairly certain any attempt at perfection will be unachievable.
From what I've seen in history, even if harmony and fairness reigned in your community, outsiders would surely invade, burn everything, and kill most people - perhaps enslaving the survivors.The only way I see a perfect society is we remove the humans. Perhaps a different, kinder species would find their way to perfection. Humans haven't.

[Geko45]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'T')his is a common trait among doomers on this website. The world is perfect. Humans are an evil infection. Kill the humans, save the planet.

[frankthetank]

Macchu Pichu...?

Humans are a menace. We have to big of brains or something. If we could lead a simple existence (caves/wild berries/rainwater), i think the planet would be ok. Right now the planet is doomed.

[paimei01]

Perfect society needs perfect people, impossible. My goal now is to live in the present moment ,for the time I succeed doing that I can say everything is perfect the way it is.
I suggest everybody to try it, it's not as easy as it seems, to not have a head full of random thoughts and worries about future and past link

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'M')acchu Pichu...? Humans are a menace. We have to big of brains or something. If we could lead a simple existence (caves/wild berries/rainwater), i think the planet would be ok. Right now the planet is doomed.

[jboogy]

Amen Paimei, Ferrel , has something devistating happened to you recently?I've noticed you've been super-gloomy lately.Yeah people suck but you gotta shrug it off and make the most of the good shit in your life.You remind me of a manic-depressive , bi-polar fortune teller . Don't skip days on your meds!

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I') wonder how large the "Save The Earth, Kill The Humans" constituency is on this forum.

My guess is somewhere in the neighborhood of 25%.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I') wonder how large the "Save The Earth, Kill The Humans" constituency is on this forum. My guess is somewhere in the neighborhood of 25%.

[Emma]

Actually I heard it in a programme on the BBC, after the shooting in that Amish community, they reported on their community. Someone on that show said that they calculated the perfect number for humans living in a society is 110 or so (can't remember the exact number) they said something about the number of people the brain can accurately remember among other stuff and came out with this number.
I don't think it really matter if it's 100 or 500, as long as there are enough people to get the jobs done and it being small enough so the people all know each other. You care more about people you know and when a crime is commited it is fairly easy to find the culprit. A smaller community solves a lot of problems.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Emma', 'A')ctually I heard it in a programme on the BBC, after the shooting in that Amish community, they reported on their community. Someone on that show said that they calculated the perfect number for humans living in a society is 110 or so (can't remember the exact number) they said something about the number of people the brain can accurately remember among other stuff and came out with this number.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'T')he more posts that I read on this forum, the more I am convinced that the "Kill the humans, save the planet" crowd is slowly becoming the majority opinion.