Would you join a new Tribe on a deserted island? It is no survivor show, it is real experience! No cameras, no connection to the outside world! You & 5000 souls would begin from scratch! Follow your adventurous spirit! Experience love, fear, suspense, power, real survival to your limits!
Once you’re on the Island, the game begins, & there is no way back! You may have to face things you have never experienced in your life!
Away from your secure society, away from your family, friends, belongings, & into a context you would not dare to imagine!
So, what! What is the experience any ways?
Be part of a new community
Take part in building a system of authority
Take part in building a political system
In setting up an economic system to ration the island’s resources
In setting rules, norms, & nurturing a culture
Assigning roles & responsibilities
Just imagine, having to start from zero! Nothing is for granted, nothing is organized, its total UNCERTAINTY!
Share your thoughts!
2006-06-24 09:29:32 · 8 answers · asked by Clearwater 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I grew up in the Appelachian Mountains and now live in Southern California. Let me tell you, I could talk all day on this one. I won't. I will say that if the "skills" one of the others mentioned were those of living off the land then half your problems are solved. If you can catch and prepare your own food, know what plants you can eat as food and use as medicines, how to build your own shelter from what you have, make your own tools and simple machines. The other half of your problems (also touched on by one of the other answers) would be the people's social differences. I've lived both sides now and folks from different places are like different species altogether. Wierd but it would make for a great social science study. Consider things like hierarchy, prejudice, (class, race, gender, age), alot of which goes unspoken in public but in private or even in the quiet of one's own heart there are harboured great resentments and dislikes if not hatreds that would certainly impact the situation. To answer the question, under the condition that I could be yanked out if my safety came into question, then I might consider it just as a personal challange. When I was a child, I used to have a recurring dream about living in a communal type setting. I didn't know what that was at the time and had never heard of such things, but I always thought that if people of like mind want to live in a community set off from others, providing for themselves and governing themselves, and of course suffering the consequences of their own actions or inactions then so be it. After all isn't that how most communities began. One group decides they don't like the way things are done and they move off. Go then. Why not. People who think that everybody ought to think alike have been proven wrong time and time again throughout history. I must add before I finish that being brought up in the middle of a forest so thick you can't see 50 yards into it, it just would not be wise to go from city life where every thing you need to live can be bought and paid for because in the mountains, cash doesn't mean much, and resources need to be harvested. If you don't know what you are doing you will die. Plain and simple.
2006-07-01 08:17:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dunno man, it'd be cool, but everyone would already have norms and rules from their respective cultures. You'd have to brainwash everyone first. it's not really starting from zero. Plus people would have skills maybe suited to the island living, maybe not, and would come from different tiers of society and already have roles which they would possibly attempt to live out on the island. It's not really starting from scratch, and it'd probably be easy to deal with, agriculture would be instantaneous, shelter wouldn't be a problem, small social groups would form, the winners the losers, the smart, the bullies... ever been to high school?
2006-06-24 18:14:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is still a deserted island out there capable of supporting life -- for 5,000 people??? Sorry, but if there is no medicine to heal the inevitable wounds, no antiseptic hospital surgery to perform the sure-to-be-required appendectomy, no way to get replacement eyeglasses, no SP30 lotions, no way I'd be interested.
2006-06-24 18:06:37 · answer #3 · answered by CarolO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An island? No way. Now the mountains are a different story.
2006-06-24 16:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by SUNSHINE30 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
honestly, I wouldn't. That's how humanity basicly started (not in an island, I guess) but I would be afraid of leaving what I know and go thruoug a totally new experience
2006-06-24 16:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by elijah_bs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that sounds like it could be fun but only if i could take my husband and children, the way society is anymore it is hard to raise a family the way our parents and grandparents raised there children,
2006-06-24 16:34:51 · answer #6 · answered by hensons6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. That SHOULD answer your question.
2006-06-27 11:53:37 · answer #7 · answered by doc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah! i would why not? you live life once so as long as your not gonna die of hunger.............Go 4 it.
2006-06-24 16:44:52 · answer #8 · answered by Shyx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋