votergasm.org promotes an interesting strategy to get more people to the polls on Election Day. Taking a page from Lysistrata, site visitors can pledge to (a) withhold sex from non-voters for a week following the elections, (b) have sex with a voter on election night and withhold sex from non-voters for the week following the election, or (c) have sex with a voter on election night and withhold sex from non-voters for the next four years.
Here’s the problem with this plan, though: nothing prevents non-voters from having sex with each other.
This is it: this is how Wells’s vision will be realized. As these pledges are carried to their logical conclusions, the population will divide into completely separate breeding populations, voters segregated from non-voters. I leave it to your prejudices to figure out which become the Eloi and which become the Morlocks.
(via the Bulldada NewsBlog)
2 replies on “Votergasm.org and Unintended Side-Effects”
Hi –
Thank you for your link to the Bulldada Newwsblog. I’d like to ask if I can use your commentary on Votergasm.org as the basis for an entry on that Web site at the High Weirdness Project: http://www.modemac.com/wiki/Votergasm
(It would save the trouble of writing something about that site, when your comment seems more accurate than what I could write.)
Sure, “link early, link often,” is a slogan for our times (though it won’t qualify us for any votergasm bennies, I’m afraid).
Please, go ahead and add it to the wiki – I’m always glad to contribute to the world supply of idiosyncratic weirdness documentation. Attribution would be nice; a link would be thoughtful but not required.