If you were to create your own society, small or big, what would it look like? Feel free to post just a few main points or go in depth on what it would look like/how it would function. Desert terrain, multiple different types of terrain, large building, only wood buildings, gender norms, car/boat/auto regulations, curfews or policing? I’d like to hear some of your ideas on this!
Here’s how a society I created might look…
1) No gender norms, so cooking, cleaning, household duties as far as being gender stereotyped, or being a “house wife” would be out the window. If someone mentioned a gear head, there’s an equal chance it could be a man or a women.
2) All organic forms of farming. All the products added to natural foods and engineering better foods is damaging to the human body and making us evolve in a weird way. Think of 2000 years from now if we keep eating GMOs, using growth hormones, and eating processed foods, how are systems will look compared to if all we ate was organic foods. I’m sure humans are going to be more plastic than biological at that point sooner or later if we continue down the track of the foods we eat now.
3) No clothing norms. Guys can wear skirts and do girl things without being ridiculed or looked at as weird. Obviously most girl things are that for a reason because if guys did that same stuff it would be awkward and strange as hell. But having clothing norms really puts boundaries on the progression of society as it limits intellectual curiosity and exploration in many ways. Limiting ideations like intellectual curiosity, the ability to expand on something with the mind, or the process of furthering one’s knowledge/understanding based on societal norms is a sad biproduct of todays world and it doesn’t look like it will change anytime soon. In fact any hinderance on intellectual progression for humans doesn’t really make sense to me, so long as we are talking about legal and ethical topics and not having classes on how to murder people in their sleep or steal money from stores without them knowing. How to build pipe bombs and get them through airport security or anything like that wouldn’t make any sense at all. I’m sure if their were no clothing norms, society as an entire world would be a lot more progressed, less violence in the world, more structured and useful learning in colleges and educational classrooms, as well as more creative and constructive production of goods and services around the world too.
4) Skill based living instead of networking/connections/who you know types of set ups and “scratch your back I’ll scratch yours” types of work environments . The only way you can get to a specific field or work up to a title is if you are skilled enough and beat out the other competition. As in you have your title because you are the best in that field and there is nobody above you that is better than you in your field, anyone else in your field who is less skilled than you has a lower and less distinguished title than you. This means that anyone in positions they currently shouldn’t be at would have to go and find something else they could work towards and make a living off of, or drop down in the pay scale and worker status and live a different type of life. There are too many people in positions that they shouldn’t be in today because there was a lack of competition in their hiring process, and it shows in the work they do and how society functions around those people. A society purely based on skill based living would be faster, more productive, and knowledgeable in a way that wouldn’t put a strain on anyone to work harder than they needed to. There would be more time for people to enjoy life instead of working and grinding in offices, buildings, and small enclosures trying to make a living. It would honestly be the way to live as you are going off you as a person and not something you are portraying or acting like.
5) 24/7 businesses run through night time are common place. Restaurants, stores, fitness centers, banks, accounting businesses, food trucks, all would be common place to run through night into the AM and morning. People think being healthy is going to bed at night and waking up in the morning, eating breakfast, and going through a full and productive day. But if you want to be super healthy, like to the point where you’re not worried about your health at all, you should be able to go through nights partying, working, watching TV, cooking, driving, working out, then being able to stay up late like this and not have it affect your schedule shouldn’t be much of s problem. As far as continuously staying up late into the night I’m not sure health wise would be good as everyone needs a proper amount of sun/daylight per day for proper functioning, but in a society with more 24/7 businesses running their would be a large enough group of people to keep them running successfully and without any problems.