An old lady told me last week how in the old days every Jewish shop had a little collection box in it for a new homeland. Now I don't want to get into a debate about the problems over in Israel now as it's not relevent here, nor am I proposing that I collect money myself, but this did give me an idea. An idea also relevent to current affairs now that the Maldives nation are attempting to buy a new homeland in the face of their country being submerged by rising sea levels...
... the idea being... a homeland for the entheogenic community!
This place would be an example for the rest of the world. Entheogens would be legal. Our main export would be services- the intelligence and emotional intelligence of our citizens. I can imagine it being inhabited by scientists, philosophers, creatives, psychologists, farmers and everyone else who applied for citizenship. Many people would continue to live where they are now, but would take dual citizenship (and perhaps even diplomatic immunity
).
This place could be started just by buying some land with sovereignty. The sovereignty could be bought from a state along with the land, or, more likely, the land would already have sovereignty, such as those little kingdom islands around New Zealand. These benefit from military protection from New Zealand yet retain independence (e.g. the Cook Islands), making invasion less likely (I'm not sure whether the NZ govt would get political and stop defending us if we made one of these places our homeland though). Or we could just build our own (like Sealand, The Fascinating History of Sealand - The World's Smallest Independent State , which housed servers so that companies can keep data away from state jurisdiction)
What do you think? What would we call this place?!
... the idea being... a homeland for the entheogenic community!
This place would be an example for the rest of the world. Entheogens would be legal. Our main export would be services- the intelligence and emotional intelligence of our citizens. I can imagine it being inhabited by scientists, philosophers, creatives, psychologists, farmers and everyone else who applied for citizenship. Many people would continue to live where they are now, but would take dual citizenship (and perhaps even diplomatic immunity
).This place could be started just by buying some land with sovereignty. The sovereignty could be bought from a state along with the land, or, more likely, the land would already have sovereignty, such as those little kingdom islands around New Zealand. These benefit from military protection from New Zealand yet retain independence (e.g. the Cook Islands), making invasion less likely (I'm not sure whether the NZ govt would get political and stop defending us if we made one of these places our homeland though). Or we could just build our own (like Sealand, The Fascinating History of Sealand - The World's Smallest Independent State , which housed servers so that companies can keep data away from state jurisdiction)
What do you think? What would we call this place?!
