Gregory's Server@serge it's... we think from a distance, people often have trouble seeing how taking an honest look at the structural forces that exist today IS a thing that's ultimately motivated by hope - because if there's no hope, why try?
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 @serge there's a place for imagining what our ideal society would be like, but there's also a place for imagining how we get there from here. @irenes Cannot agree more! I think the critique of the current system is very much needed, but many people are so trapped in it that they don't see how we can do things differently. That's for me where solarpunk really shines, as most solarpunk fiction isn't a vision of a distant future but rather how we can build a more just and sustainable world with what we've got now, including both the technology as well the challenges we face. |
@serge sure, that political stuff is unpleasant and it would be more fun to imagine futures where none of it exists. but if we are imagining the future, at least in part, to create it, we NEED to consider the root causes of the problems we have today or else we can't study how to solve them.