| The Utopia: Operation Canada |
| Upon starting the book Brave New World in my English class, we were given a list of questions related, not only to the book, but to the real world. One question in particular caused much debate in our classroom. What are the characteristics of a utopian society? Many people discussed a world without crime, poverty, drugs, starvation, war, fear, pain, suffering, and death. Then a revalation came upon me. There are actually numerous people in the world who enjoy the things that they wanted to get rid of. I personally know of three people who would be unhappy in a world without fear and misery. None of them are me. So how, then, can we build a utopian society when there are some people who don't agree with the things that most people would want? That's when I came up with Operation Canada. Here's what we do. First we clear everyone out of Canada (I hate to rip on Canada because everyone does it, but let's face it, no one cares about Canada). Don't worry. There's not many people there besides comedians and olympic athletes. Then we fence the entire country off. It has to be a tall fence too. Electrified, so people can't escape. Maybe some guard towers as well. I haven't completely thought this through yet. We take every person who loves that which is evil, and we stick them in there. We be sure to provide them with several semi-automatic weapons, nuclear warheads, rapiers (for the classy evil people), grenades, c4, sniper rifles, etc. just to speed up the process. And some sweaters (It gets cold up there). Slowly the people will kill themselves off. Eventually a select few will get wise to our plan. In that case we could gas the entire place then wait awhile before moving people back in. We might also try separating the men and women to make sure none of them reproduce. Once they're all gone, we migrate the Canadians back to their homes (we provided them with lodging of course) and we all start our new life of utopian bliss. |