The Island Experiment Idea

I noticed an interesting suggestion today.

Someone said....why not put two groups of people out on two island.  One group would be regular everyday conservatives, and the other would be woke-progressives.  Same resources.....same tents....same start-up situation.  Then the question came....what would happen in just one single year (365 days)?

I sat for a while...pondering this.

I eventually came to this logical conclusion.

The woke-progressive folks would would probably start to argue over things....the dynamic of survival....the language (pronouns) to be used....the necessity to group-talk on everything (from everyone eating the same food, to everyone using the same political slant on life).  

About 90 days into this...the woke-progressive folks would start to break off into two or three groups....one being hard-core woke-progressive....the others less so.  

Team-work on the woke-progressive side would be a problem by the sixth month.

Verbal attacks and physical attacks would be a common theme by the last couple of weeks of the year.  

On the conservative side?  There would be a discussion on day one about priorities, and most all would agree to the top five priorities.  

By the sixth month, there would be an abundance of food, and they'd likely do the kind neighborly thing....offering some to the opposite crowd.

At the end of the year.....about 75-percent of the woke-progressive folks would ask to be moved to the conservative side, and I suspect around three folks from the conservative side would ask to move to the woke-progressive side. 

Here's the thing....no one would suggest this one-year thing was a failure.  But you'd start to notice that the woke-progressive folks didn't want to talk about their feelings much, or their failures.  

Odd how society has progressed to this point.. 

Saving Us From the Evil Nazis

 Yesterday....the Democrats in the House passed an amendment to the military budget....that basically says for the Pentagon to 'fire' (remove) any military members who are white supremacists, Nazi-supporters, or extremists.

So the question should be asked.....just how many Nazis are in the US military.

Throughout my period (1977 to 1999, and the decade after that as a contractor)....I never came across a Nazi-enthusiast in that entire time-frame.

White supremacists?  You mean KKK-people?  None of them either.  

Now, I admit....I worked around the IT and intelligence field, and what you mostly had were people with unique sexual habits....individuals with extreme OCD.....and borderline schizophrenia folks.  

Will anyone get kicked out.....mostly based on extremist-labels?  I would take a guess that over the next year....there might be forty-odd people let-go.  If you'd say sexual-deviants needed to exit?  Oh, it'd probably go up into the 5,000 range....but they aren't a threat....like those evil Nazi characters.

Is there anything really positive out of this effort?  Well....you can pat your House member on the back and thank him for helping to eradicate Nazis from the US military.  If you'd gone back to 1980 and said Nazis in the Army or Navy would be a big deal in 2022?  Most people would have laughed, but that's how far society has moved in the past fifty years.