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@enbypirate @energisch_ @PhoenixSerenity
I'm not an anarchist but my #solarpunk ideals overlap a lot in the sense of building community and networks of care outside of capitalism.
Some places are starting to do this. Scotland just passed a "community wealth building" initiative that's based, ironically enough, on Cleveland OH's case example of reinvesting in their own community. "Spend local" but taken further.
@jhaas @PhoenixSerenity
we absolutely need to have ways to keep people who are broken and dangerous from harming others.
A really good way to do that is to NOT elect them to office, glorify them, excuse their behavior, etc... which is the world we have today.
"Some people are bad, let's put this Bad Guy in charge!" is like literally what passes for logic in a system built on the "people are inherently bad and must be controlled" philosophy.
I'm willing to try something new.
@PhoenixSerenity I have thoughts anout that, but what did you decide?
@PhoenixSerenity and you HAVE to drill that in, because as much as some folks like to insist that everyone is intrinsically terrible, we are not. People are intrinsically socially animals for whom cooperation is literally our superpower... and that relies on empathy and compassion to work. It takes a lot to destroy that in us.
...why you don't worship wealth and guns and say empathy is for losers. We can be better than that — we have often been better than that. And I have an enduring faith that we are rediscovering how to be better than that because freedom is a pure idea. (to quote Nemik)
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...and wholesale cultural change is hard, but if there were an easier path, we would have taken it. Instead, we're taking the path where we learn the hard way why you don't elect felons who rape women (and girls), why you don't allow billionaires to exist...
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I've been saying America has to choose to be better... we have to decide this brutality isn't what we want. And that's a deeply unpopular stance because people want it to be easy, better messaging or the right candidate, and not wholesale cultural change because that's "hard"...
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@denizb33 we DID listen to Carson... and formed the Environmental Protection Agency and passed the Clean Water Act and passed the Clean Air Act... and then we decided Greed was Good and consumerism was everything and we elected a felon and rolled it all back
but we can start today
and choose different
@denizb33 literally all we have to do is TRY
Sometimes I think about the vastness of what has to change and it feels...too much.
Then I see we're already working on it: *all these people* are changing already.
Then I remember: it doesn't matter if I can "see" them, seeds planted long ago sprout all time.
The important part: plant the seed.
when I said I didn't know how we would defeat fascism in America but I knew, however it went down, it would be uniquely American... this is it... https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=juQjhy-nnj_nuEq1
@mctwist that is a pretty general rule! Our capitalistic culture reduces everyone to drones who are supposed to serve us and instantly provide whatever we need. We need to really push back on that culture... it's bad for everyone for all kinds of reasons.
But I see it show up a lot on in the arts, where people want everything instantly for free and don't understand (or care) that art takes a lot of creative labor to make.
(btw fuck AI)
@mctwist people need to do better if they want the art they enjoy to continue, a culture that denigrates the arts and ritualizes complaints is pretty common in the tech industry, esp around gaming (is my understanding from my dev friends)
@afewbugs also the podcast/newsletter website needs updating but there are lists of other stories out there (and admittedly a chronic lack of novels which I'm trying hard to fix): https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/
@afewbugs no plans to do that, especially given the cohesion of the story-in-4-parts
I briefly thought about writing a short story from a minor character POV, but that likewise didn't quite come together (wasn't doing what I wanted).
I've got LOTS of story ideas in the works (currently writing the novel about families and plants), like lots and lots, and I think it's better to move forward and write those — there are so few stories in this genre, we need lots more out there.
@mashapotempa thank you so much 