It looks like I’m in the minority here. I just can’t see a downside to a world full of mean, old ladies.
The world would be populated entirely by 64-year-old gay men, none of whom would be attracted to each other. A rather sad demise of the human race.
People would pay more attention to grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
I would probably get along with them, but it would become supremely boring pretty quickly.
Oh God…seriously? I mean, it would be great that I would never lack for a bowling partner or someone to go to a baseball game with, but beyond that, yuck. If I didn’t have other people in my life with different personalities who expose me to new knowledge or interests, or to challenge me in various ways…I can’t even begin to imagine.
Plus, I get pretty annoying after a while.
We would drown in clutter. It would be Hoarders in the Smithsonian and at St. Jude’s and in the Houses of Parlaiment. Nobody would get anything done because we have all, every one of us, lost the car keys. And oh god something smells under the world’s fridge.
Another vote for “society would collapse.” It would be a world of extremely laid-back academics who never buy anything except books, and I don’t think that would be enough to keep the economy going.
Anne Neville, can I live in your world? I promise I won’t rock the boat too much!
It would rock. There would be a combo strip club/video arcade/comic shop/bowling alley/buffalo wing shack/movie theater on every street corner. Of course the economy would collapse since we would never leave that shop but oh what a fantastic demise it would be.
Oh crap, I never plan to have kids either.
People wouldn’t become physical clones of you, they’d just act like you and be a lot like you in other ways.
TV programming would suddenly get awesome, as all my favorite TV shows that were cancelled would likely come back. But then I’d have a hard time deciding what to DVR since it would all be to my liking, so that’d make things pretty difficult.
Also, I think I’d be screwed on the job hunt.
Well everybody would retain their life experiences, including their job experience, so maybe once they became like you they would be OK with continuing to do their job. Although finding replacements would be difficult.
People would look still different, wouldn’t they? I sure don’t want to look at billions of myself. In any event, I think I would quickly find it irritating, and then I would find it boring. BORING! B-o-r-i-n-g. Variety is the spice of life. Some of my most enjoyable friendships are with people who aren’t very much like me at all.
On the other hand, it would be a crime-free society (other than some minor traffic offenses), with civil liberties for all, a passionate attachment to democracy, a love of history, flags everywhere, and far more reading than now goes on, so I guess that would be for the better.
Everybody would keep their intelligence levels, so that wouldn’t be a problem.
Wow, that’s a pretty bleak outlook.
Everybody would still be the same physically, and their voices would be the same, and they would retain their knowledge and life experiences.
Finally you could watch judo on TV. Of course, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, bowling, golf, and hockey would disappear, so there is a lot of TV time to fill.
Great Debates would be kind of boring, though.
Regards,
Shodan
I’m assumin a range of looks, genders and intelligence would still be the norm. So essentially we’d be looking at a world of pacifist, anarchist, atheist nature lovers who love Sci Fi and hate sport?
Paradise at last!
Yeah, I realize that my comfortable existence requires that there be people who are not like me around. Takes all kinds to make a world, and all that.
In the world of people all like me, we’d have real problems when it came time to elect some leaders. Nobody would want to deal with the hassle and long hours. Everybody would prefer to just have a regular 9-5 job, then go home and play computer games or read. Everybody would rather do their own thing than have power over others.
We wouldn’t have sports teams, and that would be a problem. If the Steelers didn’t play, what would keep the crowds home when I want to go to Costco?
The book and wine industries would rejoice, though. All states would change their laws, so that wine and beer could be sold at any store, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Animal shelters would also be happy, because everybody would want at least one cat or dog that didn’t come from a puppy mill. The stores that sell puppy mill animals would go out of business, as would the puppy mills- they wouldn’t be able to get anyone to work there.