Islands

loreonpravus's picture

I've got this idea (completely theoretical) that seems brilliant but has still has about half a million flaws in it that I haven't managed to find yet.

The plan is to send away all the stupid people to a Stupid Island, all the jerks to Jerk Island, all the people who have their heads shoved up their asses to... *fill in the blank* Island, etc, and all the other dwits/morons/closeminded dum-dums, and so forth and so on.

This way, we'd get rid of all the idiots that really ought to be gotten rid of, but somehow haven't managed to walk in front of a car on the Don Valley Parkway.

The proposal is to make everybody sit through a test for common sense, ability to not chatspeak in every scenario possible, spelling, grammar, and the various "that guy" factors. Then, once all those people have been shipped away, we can get rid of the druggies, the jerks, the mean people and the various other dunderheads.

It was pointed out to me that who some people consider jerks might not actually be jerks, and the ones who actually are come off as completely charming to others. So it was decided that there should be a form of voting system, where all the jerks got voted away by the general population. But once we realized that the jerks tend to be the popular ones, and that all the jerk people might gang up to vote off a perfectly decent person, we came up with the idea of getting graduated psychologists and undercover operatives to observe people, interview them, and then we'd figure out who the jerks are and get rid of them.

Egotistical people are next up. Same process follows for jerk selection. Then after all these people have been culled, we start picking on the ones who think they're all that now that all the people who might've been in the way are gone.

Also, there should be a blanket ban on anybody who chooses to intentionally low ride and show off their underpants, who smokes in front of babies, who's rude to the people behind the counter at Tim Hortons, and general unsavoury traits, perhaps.

What d'you think?

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Neutrina's picture

I think people would be too

I think people would be too afraid of getting shipped off to go for it. Which of course means you need a coup d'etat first.

But I'm in. I think it's a great idea.

"When the people begin to reason, all is lost" - Voltaire

Lol-taire's picture

I'm an idiot. I'm also quite

I'm an idiot. I'm also quite mean.

The nicest boy I've met at uni so far is a massive druggy and some of the most fun I've had in my life has been being mean with other mean people about idiots. If all the idiots were on a seperate island then who could we talk about? And my grancher smoked his pipe around my baby cousins. And some of the funniest people I know have the biggest egos. And I still find spelling really very difficult.

I sort of like unsavoury traits. But then, I also like islands.

loreonpravus's picture

Aww, looks like we'll need

Aww, looks like we'll need to compensate, then.

But actually, thinking about it, mainstream society would probably alienate this idea, and all the right-wingers would probably end up making a gay/lesbian/trans/everybody who isn't "normal" and straight island.

actually, if that comes to that, that'd probably be the most convienient island to be on.

targristiel's picture

Instead of shipping the

Instead of shipping the general population off to separate islands, why don't all of the smart people create their own country?

Also, there are people for whom spelling is very difficult because they have learning disabilities like dyslexia. In my opinion, they can't be held accountable for their bad spelling.