Originally published at: Mystery land buyer in California turns out to be Silicon Valley investors, to build utopian community | Boing Boing
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Silicon Valley investors?
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Perhaps they should name their new utopia Landland, in honor of Sealand.
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I was just listening a podcast about this sort of a thing.
TrueAnon Episode 314: Life, Liberty, and Squat Chilean Businessmen
In this spiritual followup to our previous episode on Charter Cities, we get a glimpse at Galt’s Gulch Chile. We investigate how a farming community built on Ayn Rand’s principles fell into a freaky web of lawsuits, arrests, freaks, pencil mustaches, and a shooting at a Chilean protest by an American YouTube economist in a yellow vest.
And of course there’s:
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Wealthy tech bros buying up land to start a community run according to their techno-libertarian ideals? I can’t imagine any way that could possibly go right.
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Curious what laws will make it into their charter. Presumably lowering age of consent and establishing that blood transfusions for hire are easily obtained at all hospitals.
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Stand back stand back! Shambling tin-foil lunatic breaking off from hunting the Loch Ness monster to say: this is all a quasi-Russian scheme to eventually declare secession from the U.S!, and as such is being a bit funded by none other than Putin and the boys! Reference #1 | Reference #2 | Reference #3 (BBC!) | …etc. Of course, i can’t be proven wrong as it’ll never get beyond the “Future Site of Hill Valley Community” billboard [insane snigger]
…what with all the bitcoin, sister states on Mars, and NFT investor opportunities and all
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Tabula Ra$a is literally the name of the libertarian community in the Zoey Ashe series.
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Burbclaves.
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If they are looking for suggestions for naming this incipient Fire Festival nightmare, I’ll suggest Randland.
Meet the HMO.
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Obligatory Frank Fontaine quote:
These sad saps. They come to Rapture thinking they’re gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody’s gotta scrub the toilets. What an angle they gave me… I hand these mugs a cot and a bowl of soup, and they give me their lives.
Also, since we’re reminding everyone of the guaranteed debacles known as “Libertarian ‘communities’” (there’s a paradox for you), here’s another:
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Wow what an original idea, i’ve never heard this before.
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Indeed! And I’m certain it absolutely couldn’t go horribly wrong.
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Most of these “tech bros” turn out to be investment venture capitalists, and tech is just the sexy ingredient in their elixir.
I wonder how many people with good ideas can’t get funding because they aren’t a good fit with the current Silicon Valley ideological necrosis?
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Cult communities have a history in California.
Silicon Valley couple who bought abandoned ‘Holy City’ reported to be Scientology’s biggest donors
Back in the 1920s, a man named William Riker bought the land and called it Holy City. Riker considered himself a pastor, preaching ideologies of temperance, celibacy, and racial and gendered segregation, and with the help (and deep pockets) of his followers, built a small town on the property. The settlement included houses, a gas station, a radio station, and for a short time, a zoo.
(The Roaring Twenties were also a big time for cults.)
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