Instead of saying that we are living in "late stage capitalism," what is something positive we could we say we are living in the early, or pre, stages of?
I'm tired of critiquing the current failed system & dreaming of what will replace it.
Positive answers only please. Snark and humor not welcomed in response to this post.
Melody Wainscott
in reply to Rob 🏳️🌈 RMiddleton.Art • • •We are transitioning into connected, inclusive communities centered in mutual aid and sustainability with all beings, human and more than human.
Air, water, earth and sunlight are our elemental ancestors and our future generations.
We know all are One.
#solarpunk
feinstruktur
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in reply to Rob 🏳️🌈 RMiddleton.Art • • •useful question.
I sometimes take the view we at the start of nature's enforced sustainability.
I will leave that to the individual to decide if they view that as a good thing or a bad thing, but for me it's a great consolation prize knowing we could've done sustainability electively, chose not to, but get it anyway.
khobochka
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in reply to Rob 🏳️🌈 RMiddleton.Art • • •I think as soon as you step outside of our small time frame you realize we are in the early stages of having to solve some inward problems with governance, but that we have actually just thrived too much recently, and that's how we got here. Figured out a lot of stuff fast.
I can read something like "In 1908, Jersey City, New Jersey was the first city in the United States to begin routine disinfection of community drinking water" and remember we are dumb apes that just very recently in our history stopped poisoning ourselves with water. No need to drink low grade alcohol from infancy to avoid the bad water.
Also, child mortality rates. Way down. We have terrible issues with guns in the US that end up affecting our children. And the tragic violence makes headlines, but it has to do with how it's the business of the place, and people don't face that. It is how the US makes a lot of its money, weapon sales of all kinds. But it was disease gunning down children before. In way larger numbers.
We used to have a lot more monarchs and now the idea of them is some fake Di
... Show more...I think as soon as you step outside of our small time frame you realize we are in the early stages of having to solve some inward problems with governance, but that we have actually just thrived too much recently, and that's how we got here. Figured out a lot of stuff fast.
I can read something like "In 1908, Jersey City, New Jersey was the first city in the United States to begin routine disinfection of community drinking water" and remember we are dumb apes that just very recently in our history stopped poisoning ourselves with water. No need to drink low grade alcohol from infancy to avoid the bad water.
Also, child mortality rates. Way down. We have terrible issues with guns in the US that end up affecting our children. And the tragic violence makes headlines, but it has to do with how it's the business of the place, and people don't face that. It is how the US makes a lot of its money, weapon sales of all kinds. But it was disease gunning down children before. In way larger numbers.
We used to have a lot more monarchs and now the idea of them is some fake Disney shit. Or some ruthless oil money shit that is on its way out.
I think masto does the doom and gloom really well. It does need more positive takes. The world is always trying to kill you. That is nature. Get used to it. Fight for your lives. But enjoy them because otherwise wtf is the fight for.
the roamer
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There are more forests now than during medieval times.
Cassian [main]
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in reply to Rob 🏳️🌈 RMiddleton.Art • • •I call myself a solarpunk, but the current trajectory suggests me that things are going to get worse before they get better. In that sense, taking a page from Varoufakis, I believe we're in the early stages of technofeudalism.
BUT, as feudalism was also about to be ground to a halt by the Great Rising, and taking a page from Degrowth, I also believe we're in the embryo (not early, not yet) stage of, perhaps, a *Great Slowing*.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasan…
major uprising across large parts of England in 1381
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)foundseed
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in reply to Rob 🏳️🌈 RMiddleton.Art • • •…might work for coffee…
in reply to Rob 🏳️🌈 RMiddleton.Art • • •We are in a time where the knowledge and technology is there to overcome old crusty believes and to make improvements even on small scale.
Everyone can start to participate.
In Germany there was the believe that renewables could never contribute more than 3% to the electricity grid in the 90s. Virtual Powerplants were unthinkable.
We now proved that a lot is possible and it gets accepted.
Time of Relearning and thinking small to big :)
Local Agency
in reply to Rob 🏳️🌈 RMiddleton.Art • • •the early days a more rational society.
Where we center human survival and the dignity of the individual.
Where food, housing and medical care are basic responsibilities of the state; not opportunities for profit.
tadcan
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