What Would Jenkins Do?
Sep. 16th, 2008 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollImagine for the moment that the demographic transition continues to its logical end-point and that you are an entity charged with bringing those lovable humans [1] back from the brink of extinction. How would you do it?
Just for giggles, let's remove "enslave all women" as an option. I'm sure that option gets discussed enough elsewhere.
This was inspired by a comment on my flist comparing humans to pandas, btw, so all of the mental images I have right now are probably inappropriate for this problem (On the plus side, if you can convince them it is a fashion accessory, you probably won't have to drug humans to fit them with GPS ear-tags).
1: There was supposed to be something else in front of this but since I screwed that up, have this instead:
It's probably funnier if the entities involved have no experience with humans in the wild [2] aside from the humans' own works on how human breeding works. We'll assume that Murder Ballads are not part of this body of work but I think even a stack of moldering manga could prove entertaining.
2: Say, what counts as in the wild for humans two hundred years from now. Would our entity try to drop their carefully raised humans off in the middle of nowhere to find their way as hunter-gatherers or would they make a city for them?
Just for giggles, let's remove "enslave all women" as an option. I'm sure that option gets discussed enough elsewhere.
This was inspired by a comment on my flist comparing humans to pandas, btw, so all of the mental images I have right now are probably inappropriate for this problem (On the plus side, if you can convince them it is a fashion accessory, you probably won't have to drug humans to fit them with GPS ear-tags).
1: There was supposed to be something else in front of this but since I screwed that up, have this instead:
It's probably funnier if the entities involved have no experience with humans in the wild [2] aside from the humans' own works on how human breeding works. We'll assume that Murder Ballads are not part of this body of work but I think even a stack of moldering manga could prove entertaining.
2: Say, what counts as in the wild for humans two hundred years from now. Would our entity try to drop their carefully raised humans off in the middle of nowhere to find their way as hunter-gatherers or would they make a city for them?
