Truth be told, I was largely ignorant about seasteading and Patri Friedman's unwavering endeavors to make it a reality, until I read Peter Thiel's extremely controversial essay entitled 'The Education of a Libertarian'.
When I read the essay, I was furiously befuddled by the notion of seasteading; which motivated me to do a modicum of research on it.
According to the description on the Seasteading Institute's website, seasteading is "creating permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas." Furthermore, the institute also defines a seastead as a "structure meant for permanent occupation on the ocean."
The Seasteading Institute's answer to the question; "Why would you want to do that?", is as follows: "Because the world needs a new frontier, a place where those who wish to experiment with building new societies can go to test out their ideas. By opening the ocean as a new frontier, we hope to revolutionize the quality of government and social systems worldwide by enabling experimentation, innovation, and competition."
From the quoted text, it is evident that Miester Friedman's 'seasteading quest' is underpinned by the desire to find a Utopian social structure that will assauge mankind of the existential despair, and pestilences that are, ostensibly, brought about by flaws in the current world order. Clearly, his quest is of an altruistic nature, but will it uncover a practical solution to the decadence and licentiousness that currently plagues this planet? Furthermore, will his experiments preserve the mental and physical well-being of the subjects that choose to participate in them? Indeed, those are difficult questions that I just cannot answer. However, I do know for certain that his concept monetizable.
The proliferation, and unprecedented success of different genres of reality-tv programmes reveals an important thing about the nature of mankind: humans beings have within the deepest recesses of their minds, a voyeuristic need that is satiated by watching others go-about their lives in unfamiliar settings. (This need could be primordial, or its origins could be recent.)
Thus, from the preceding paragraph, it should be obvious that Patri Friedman's altruistic social experiments could be monetized by conducting them within a commercialized, reality-tv framework.
I believe that people will be mystified by a reality-tv programme that: isolates meticulously-created communities in the middle of the open seas - on an oil rig-esque super-structure, and; gets their respective individual members to co-exist within experimental social structures. Clearly, the concept is definitely unique, and it is guaranteed to attract a lot of attention from television networks - who would be dying to finance it.
Hence, it is my belief that Patri Friedman should concentrate his fundraising efforts on television networks, as he'll never lose by pursuing that avenue.
When I read the essay, I was furiously befuddled by the notion of seasteading; which motivated me to do a modicum of research on it.
According to the description on the Seasteading Institute's website, seasteading is "creating permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas." Furthermore, the institute also defines a seastead as a "structure meant for permanent occupation on the ocean."
The Seasteading Institute's answer to the question; "Why would you want to do that?", is as follows: "Because the world needs a new frontier, a place where those who wish to experiment with building new societies can go to test out their ideas. By opening the ocean as a new frontier, we hope to revolutionize the quality of government and social systems worldwide by enabling experimentation, innovation, and competition."
From the quoted text, it is evident that Miester Friedman's 'seasteading quest' is underpinned by the desire to find a Utopian social structure that will assauge mankind of the existential despair, and pestilences that are, ostensibly, brought about by flaws in the current world order. Clearly, his quest is of an altruistic nature, but will it uncover a practical solution to the decadence and licentiousness that currently plagues this planet? Furthermore, will his experiments preserve the mental and physical well-being of the subjects that choose to participate in them? Indeed, those are difficult questions that I just cannot answer. However, I do know for certain that his concept monetizable.
The proliferation, and unprecedented success of different genres of reality-tv programmes reveals an important thing about the nature of mankind: humans beings have within the deepest recesses of their minds, a voyeuristic need that is satiated by watching others go-about their lives in unfamiliar settings. (This need could be primordial, or its origins could be recent.)
Thus, from the preceding paragraph, it should be obvious that Patri Friedman's altruistic social experiments could be monetized by conducting them within a commercialized, reality-tv framework.
I believe that people will be mystified by a reality-tv programme that: isolates meticulously-created communities in the middle of the open seas - on an oil rig-esque super-structure, and; gets their respective individual members to co-exist within experimental social structures. Clearly, the concept is definitely unique, and it is guaranteed to attract a lot of attention from television networks - who would be dying to finance it.
Hence, it is my belief that Patri Friedman should concentrate his fundraising efforts on television networks, as he'll never lose by pursuing that avenue.
