Not too many people can articulate so precisely the issues with society and our environment, but even fewer can present actual solutions and a message of hope. Well done!
@@TheDoomWizardexist as though you’re in both realities at once. Because even in a doomsday scenario, I can still fight to make things as good as possible for my community with the time I have left Think of the Black Panther Party in the US Civil Rights movement. They led one of the most iconic political education and mutual aid efforts centred around a better world for black liberation. They were doing the work, believing they were on the cusp of revolution, like the comment said. But they also existed in an era of ongoing racism in the most carceral nation in the world. The same colonial capitalist forces that have led to the climate crisis have already been felt by BIPOC communities for centuries. They know what 90 seconds to midnight feels like - and still, they put in the work. You can hold both realities in your head at once
The thing about David's work I always loved is the idea that communal, democratic and equalitarian modes of governance are self-consciously chosen by the people themselves. This is of course known by anarchists ideologically but the fact that he and the anthropologists that influenced him could demonstrate it in communities that had never heard the word anarchism is very cool. It shows that the impulse towards equality and freedom in humans is as natural as any other.
So where is the impulse to guard it against corporate and oligarchic bullies than seek to restrain freedom? Why is it that all we see is completely disenfranchised people at the bottom and a middle-class who is just comfortable enough not to want to rock the boat, or worse, actively licking boots?
@@abbanjo13 my point is that it seems like choosing not to engage in revolutionary struggle seems more inherent to human behaviour than doing so. And when you think about it, that makes sense, at the risk of constructing an evolutionary development just-so story; we come with a certain level of risk aversion and we tend not to stick our necks out unless we've got nothing left to lose. People can become desensitised to quite terrible circumstances, even.
@@PinataOblongata This is why I think history from below is so important. There are unexpected examples of revolutionary struggle in history that resulted in the formation of liberated societies. Many are either ignored or erased from bourgeois historiography. Take the indigenous societies of the north east woodlands of North America. While not all totally equalitarian most have a distribution of power that is designed to prevent the types of power accumulation that would result in a state. All of these societies were preceded by the very hierarchical Mississippian delta culture. Something occurred there where people chose to organize themselves in a new way.
I am 100% on board with prefiguration. My City had a bike coop I volunteer at. The organization structure is pretty flat. People come in and use our tools while we are open. We also have people who work a few hours for us and earn a bike (since we have say over what they do these few hours this is a hierarchical power structure, and I'm not sure how to get around this one.) We fix up bikes that are donated and sell them to make rent.
you could view it as instructive guidance on how to use their time effectively to the benefit of the organization. that's serving as a leader at its least hierarchical.
The algorithm threw this at me and I'm going to like, comment and subscribe because more people need to see this. While I don't consider myself an anarchist, I found the first half of this video incredibly effective at describing the need for community organizing, the importance of which I do agree with. The second half deepened my previously much more superficial understanding of prefiguration. Will look at more of your videos!
I think most organizing that embodies anarchist principles, is done by people who do not consider themselves anarchist. I mean, anarchists tend to be very active that way and have build their political philosophy around it, but mutual aid, direct action and prefiguration are very common human tendencies (and fortunately so, without mutual aid we wouldn't even have made it as a species)
I opted to try out option 4. Planting species for butterflies, but still working on other points. Definitely feel that community is so important in it and I feel it is needed for success going forward. My plan is to create a decent garden style for butterflies, water conservation and soil building to work as a model to show people to try promote the idea. I have managed to help several butterfly species so far despite it being less than a year of the garden's life so far. The plants within the space I will use as host plants to do cuttings to give away to people plant in their gardens
well done, garden meadows are great. I turned an acre of olive and almond trees in the Sierra Nevada of Spain into a meadow between the trees. The trees are happy too. So many butterflies. I dont cut the meadows until they dry out at the end of summer, bees and beetles, wasps, crickets cicadas etc abound. Help other people to make meadows and not to mow until it all dries up
I remember having a similar thought about fireflies. When I was a kid (20 years ago) the nearby park would be filled with them and we’d often play among them. I would put my hand out and they would land on it for a little before quickly spreading their wings to fly away again. Today, I go to that same park and I don’t see a single firefly. I wonder where they all went…
I tried this in my workplace and got nuked.. crucified and then flayed by the people who really like the world as it is. 😢 Doesn’t mean I won’t try helping butterflies again. I love how you have appeared in my feed, and love your word salad. It makes a huge amount of sense to me ❤
I had a similar thought as prefiguration once. A problem I see is that many people aren't reachable by government or environmental organisations. The whole society can be seen as a web of interconnections, with each person usually having friends/family that aren't that ecological aware but connecting to them for other reasons. If some people start an idea and convey it to others with patience and understanding, i think it can make waves in the whole society ^^ (and with enough people we can actually let the ideas become law/reality xd)
I learned in another video (about fast fashion, but the point still stands) that if only 3% of people make a change in their daily life (like not buying fast fashion or not aquiring many clothes at all anymore) that others will notice and follow suit, and that is when real change happens. That is a pretty cool and encouraging statistic to me!
@@yellowzora That is pretty cool, that's the thing with social tipping points. Thanks for sharing ^^ But do you think this 3% just have to do it in quiet?, because it seems hard to notice if someone is buying less clothes. I think it's when these 3% bring there views into conversations where the real change can happen. Though I know how hard it can be to bring in ecological concerns in conversations, because some people just put you in a box and don't take it seriously. But once 2 people in their proximity start to raise that concern, they might start a process where they also rethink their opinion. Hope it makes sense xD
It might be less people needed than I fear are, but it's gonna take a lot of effort to convince the minority actually in charge of the real Problems. Also the majority of people I meet are so tranquilized by what society has become, they don't wanna hear about the future and see no worth in a sustainable one. Thus so many people happily agree with the easy "solutions" (😂) for example the right wing shoves into their bums.
It might be less people needed than I fear are, but it's gonna take a lot of effort to convince the minority actually in charge of the real Problems. Also the majority of people I meet are so tranquilized by what society has become, they don't wanna hear about the future and see no worth in a sustainable one. Thus so many people happily agree with the easy "solutions" (😂) for example the right wing shoves into their bums.
All your butterflies must have moved into my garden, I've seen lots this year! I'm also letting the front garden grow wild while I'm working out what I want to plant there that looks pretty, is not toxic to cats (my little fluffy idiot will try anything) and works well for bugs, plus I need to actually have the money to do it! Loved the video, I'm working on getting more active in the community, even picking litter will make a difference 😊
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing going to get better, it’s not.” Thank you for this content! It’s a good reminder to continue to be that change you want to see.
I think this kind of world-understanding needs to be organized by a large, „grassroots and flat“ organization. Because it takes A LOT of effort and time for any individual living in this world to bend their minds around the status-quo of capitalism and the workings of society, technology and nature. Very few people will come this far in their lives. But all of this will only work if the majority of people understands and supports it. An organization like this could combine all five of your points and include education and opinion-forming into it to bring solarpunk out of its niche into the mainstream.
One example of prefiguration in my community are tool libraries. People can borrow tools for free to complete gardening or renovation projects. We also have a babysitting co-operate group I’ve been meaning to join :)
Thank youuuu for your kind words of encouragement and love of the world and the people of this planet 💕 I really hope that you will be happy and healthy and that we will get to see each other in the future 💕 thank youuuu and thank youuuu
The summer has been just fine here, in SW Scotland - but the number of butterflies is still dramatically reduced. So, it's not a cold summer thing going on (wish that was the explanation). I've noticed severe slumps a few times over the 21 years I've lived here - despite making this garden much more wildlife-friendly (totally No Mow for 21 years, adding wild flowers, adding nectar rich shrubs, adding and/or encouraging relevant food plants). There used to be a small but stable population of the Chimney Sweep moth here, a creature I'd never seen elsewhere. Despite sowing and growing more of its food plants elsewhere around the garden, rather than see the usual half dozen moths, I've seen only one. Same with the moths that usually inundate my Buckthorn trees, eating them bare. This year, few caterpillars, very few moths, and the trees still have a great deal of leaf. My Buddleia and Agrimony plants are normally smothered with activity. Seen no butterflies on any of them yet, but the blooms are at their peak. So, where is everything?
I haven't finished watching this video yet. I was diverted by your introduction ie. that Democracy has to be more than a vote every 5 years. I say this regularly as it helps define that the the UK isn't a democracy but I haven't come across this simple analysis from anywhere else. Thank you for putting that plainly. I'll finish watching this and work my way through your other videos1
This video gave me hope, thank you for sharing your perspective! I have been trying to get back into my local community for years, I went sober in 2019. eventually I realize that I needed to prioritize my mental health and healing before I could actually engage in a productive manner in my community without burning myself out completely. I think I'm finally reaching that point where I'm ready to get back out there, I want to be a catalyst for change!
Excellent and useful video! I love when people correctly label solarpunk as not just an aesthetic but a social and political movement towards collective and community action!
I love the video Alana. This was amazing communication skill and technique like I haven't seen in a long time. In my city, we have multiple different mutual aid groups, at one point last year it was estimated that combined, the people were feeding almost 2,000 of their neighbours, every single day. By now, it wouldn't surprise me if were closer to 5,000 now. Its a very very inequal, racially segregated city on Turtle Island. Weve been able to prefigure in a few other areas as well. Coops are very popular, being somewhat rural(for a city), numerous community defense groups, workers assemblies, safe street folks who help with overdoses and shelter for many who have fell sick with addiction. Theres quite a few nature reserves, and reforesting, rewilding going on, some even with state funding. And this isn't even including the countless indigenous community groups in various different formations and levels of "democratic" influence (most are, but some are still run traditionally, whichever way the specific band or nation has historically done things). Its easy to feel like there's nothing we can do. But we can. You just have to put yourself out there, in whatever way you can, in making and assisting in the creation of the systems and formations we want to create. Theres a bit of social psych that comes into play as well that can be almost an additional 'kick' that rewards our brains when we cooperate and solve problems with others in a way that can be rewarding for everyone involved, it builds the solidarity we need. We need each other, and becoming close with people in your community, doing something, and seeing real change is infectious. But here's the where the kick comes back, is when you fail, because we all fail, the drive for getting that almost emotional 'high' from the success in connection with your friends, community members, tribe or comrades is what drives us forward. Whats something that you care about? Think about it, and then see if there's already a group in your area doing such things. If not, make it, advertise it, poster, whatever, people will come. And if you do it on a consistent basis, you start to build a group that can contract and expand as the need or interest desires, but basically in anything you do, there should be 'almost' no limitations on who you allow to participate. Sorry., this was just kinda a 420 rant and thoughts running through my head after watching this and realizing that yeah, we can do this. We just need to be more inviting. ;)
Thank you so much! I 100% agree with what you’re saying. I think it’s also about believing whether people are inherently cooperative or competitive… I’ve heard a lot of people in the climate space say climate change will never be fixed because ‘humans are so selfish and will never learn’ but I just don’t think that’s true. The fact we’ve already got so many mutual aid groups and other prefigurative practices disproves that. And on a personal level it definitely is so rewarding to get involved with these initiaves! Glad to hear of all the projects already going on in your area
If I've grown more than i need them i put the extra produce on a table outside me house so people passing can get take it. I've got apple, pear and plumb trees and do the same when they produce. I've asked also done a little bit of gorilla gardening by planting some sunflowers on a stretch of dirt near my house. It's a start.
Makes me feel hopeful about the future, which is saying something. Hearing the examples of actions around butterflies made it easier to understand what I can do for the causes I care about. I'm going to share this video with friends.
Great content that is sorely needed in our struggling world. One suggestion: I notice that you edit your video so there are no pauses, and I think that does not give your great ideas time to land before you are on to the next thing. Every idea you are conveying deserves a chance to be noticed and absorbed.
Oh my god waiting in line for the buss! Thats so crazy cause I just had the weirdest experience when I went to England where I litturally just went to go on the buss and this lady was like "Um exuse me I was here first, theres actually a line behind me" and I was like "what? Hey were all gonna get on the buss if you wanna geton first thats all good by me but I don't think it makes a difference" then got on after her And then sure enough on the trip back it did genuinely look like people were getting in a long line for the buss and I was like "whootttt??" Its funny how even though we Australians come from the English but theres still cultural differences, like I don't think iv ever seen a line for the buss or train before, people just kinda crowd around the door and get on in a random order Lines seem kinda dumb if theres going to be enough space for everyone though tbh no offense
people don't line up for buses in this country, what you've encountered there unfortunately just an entitled and unpleasant person. i have had a similar run in with someone like that moaning that they got to the stop first so they should get on first, but that idea is so bad that only a fringe minority of self centered people could think that way. there's lines to board which is pretty much unavoidable, but it's not like an organised line where people who got to the stop first get on first
Plant native species if you can. Even a couple native plants in a container, on a balcony helps. I’ve included native flowers, bushes and shrubs in my yard. I’ve noticed an explosion in insects since I started doing so.
I saw a Monarch today :)))) and have seen a ton of little tiny ones, I wish I knew more about the little animals. Lovely presentation! Already kinda trying to get the community going, but its so tiring to exist sometimes.
That was a super good video thanks for all that info!!!! I appreciate it so much and it really does give a good path towards improving the world. I LIKE SOLARPUNK A LOT TOO!!!!
Kevin Carson has a (freely available) book that touches on this topic it's called Exodus General Idea of the Revolution in the 21st Century (a nod at Proudhon's book about revolution in the 19th century)
Loads of Trefoil, that's a good food plant. Also, if you find somewhere selling Pignut seeds at a reasonable cost, sow a few of those along the sunny side of any trees/shrubs. Never know, you may get the delicate little Chimney Sweeper moth. Just 2 days ago, I found a number of caterpillars munching leaves on a young Birch I have in the garden. No idea what this can be, but left them to it (this Birch is just one of several hundred here anyway, and I know they spring back quick enough from any disaster). A nettle patch by a sunny wall, of course. The inevitable Buddleia, Spiraea and Weigela. And if you have lots of Tortoiseshell, Peacock and Red Admirals in your area - see if you can get your hands on a piece of the (very tall) Hemp Agrimony. It's a butterfly magnet. I haven't mown my grass in 21 years, and some butterflies do thrive on grass. I'm having trouble with butterfly numbers this year, for some reason. Perhaps wind carried sprays from the farm next door? But grass is great for a number of species. I just walk along certain paths and cut back whatever tall grass flops over onto the pathways.
Hard to avoid politics when you truly want to know what’s threatening ecology. Graeber wasn’t perfect, but he sure got a lot of people introduced to the main underlying concepts of modern anarchism. A lot of stuff has changed since the 1800s and a lot of people missed those new insights… there’s quite a bit to read for anyone wanting to
I teeter back and forth on prefiguration. Though work needs to start now, there is a catch. Not everyone is politically educated or ecologically educated. Why does this matter? Well, prefiguration has been tried in conjunction with horizontalism and it failed miserably, so much so that the political climate we in live is a knock on effect of those experiments. In the 2010s horizontal movements sprung up throughout the world, triggering the most vigorous protest era the world has seen. Some of these protests led to large prefigurative communities (Tahrir Square). These communities were organic and egalitarian. But these protests, which were widely popular, were quickly co-opted by the state, more centrist/conservative media, and conservatives. Why did this happen? There was no clear ideological message, political power, or organization. This has happened broadly in our culture as well, as we see people like Steve Bannon and Trump speaking to working class people with class consciousness, though it is completely empty. There is no left opposition because horizontalism has been the prevalent mode of organizing for the past twenty years or so. What is this all to say? Horizontalism and prefiguration could work but we need to learn from these huge mistakes. I’m not saying we need Leninism or Maoism but perhaps there are lessons there as well. We need political and ecological education, and intersectional one at that. That’s why I love Solarpunk. Read If We Burn by Vincent Bevins and Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein. Love your channel keep it up! Edit: Obviously there are many reasons for there being no left opposition. To my point, I think I made sense but broadly to make that the single reason, ie horizontalism being the dominant philosophy of the left, there is no left would be reductive. It still stands that it is an issue but one of many.
So I go back and forth on this quite a bit, its kinda what led me towards democratic confederalism, because it can be built into the 'state' apparatus or outside of it. I for one think that there should be room for some sort of recallable delegated representation, in some matters, unions work like this now, everyone gets a vote, but not every member is at the negotiating table. Good unions allow the negotiation board to be recalled if the strike/negotiations are going poorly. etc. I think Id call it like a psudeo-state. It can act like a state, but is direct democratically consultative in major decision making. Like take the Maoist Mass Line, but you can make that digital at this point, and because of that, you don't have to restrict access to information to party members only due to logistical reasons. Everyone is autonomous, membership in groups is by attendance. and one vote is one vote. majority rules, but if ever the majority wants to recall the question at hand, they may be allowed to do so. This can be done in person, online, via text, encrypted end to end, etc, Like we could logistically have a direct democracy if we wanted to. And then groups and associations of people would offer delegates/representatives/members etc to various meetings to offer solutions and plans, to do whatever it is they're recommending. I also don't think that having a 'vanguard' or even party structure in the early days is a bad thing. PKK-Rojava Zapatistas-EZLN-Chiapas. Its actually probably a good thing. This is why I still think that if the state exists, and unless it collapses due to outside forces, climate, war, economic collapse, any number of SHTF scenarios, a party, or army that takes over the state and deconstructs it from the inside out is almost certainly necessary, and sometimes by force if necessary in defense of themselves, or others around them. Civil War, Ethnic Violence, Religous/Racial prosecution etc.
Thanks! Yes I've come across mutual credit before - I actually have a group in my area (part of LETS) who are using a local currency to exchange mutual aid. Haven't heard much about the velocity of money, do you have any recommendations on where I can find out more?
@@solarpunkalana Accidental Gods Episode - Let’s get rid of Money and start afresh! Dismantling the Super-Organism with Diana Finch, is the most recent place I've come across it. I'll try and remember where else I've heard of it
The RSPCA is a good example of this. Their labels on the packets of animals bodies in supermarkets that were exploited, and violently killed, means they are perpetuating a vile and cruel system towards non human animals. I am very careful about the charity I support.
I love this video so much. Some of these things are really great, but unfortunately I don’t know how to apply them to my life as both a student, minor and a person who lives with their parents who has different beliefs. Any tips?
Great video. Very thought provoking. For anyone interested in practical steps to help insects I very much recommend 'The Garden Jungle' by Dave Gouldson
Local government is where it's at, but you're right, the status quo has got to go! I'm not going to spam with a video link, but if you'd like to keep wind turbine blades out of landfills, check out my solarpunk pitch in ASLA's Game Changers competition. It's titled "Blades for Shade"
Yes, if you believe in organising yourself without hierarchy (state, corporations, police) then you are indeed an anarchist. Anarchists are just regular people who don't need to be told what to do or coerced into working together to do the right thing, whether thats politely standing in line at the bus stop, horizontally organising protests or cooperatively providing services for the community.
Solarpunk community, please share your thoughts on carbon capture. Abundance of clean energy is key to unlocking global sustainability. New technologies should respect the natural balance of the Earth. Obviously, the goal with carbon capture should be restoring the pre-industrial atmosphere rather than extending the resource extraction timeline. We need green ambition.
@@sudd3660, we are swimming in infinite pools of energy. One only has to learn and harvest it. Do you believe it would be easier to correctly insulate every home on Earth than to collect an abundance of energy from wind, ground, sun and sea? Of course, every step taken towards sustainability brings us closer to our goal, but energetic austerity would undoubtedly get implemented from the bottom up, following in the footsteps of the capitalistic inequalities.
@@gab-on-the-spectrum my point is that for anything to be a solution it needs to be low impact, and less use of tech or overbuilt. in other words use less resources on the problem with the way we live and where we live.
Poppycock. lol, I am joking, just catching your attention Alana. I am a self manifested autistic solar punk. Some of my technologies would blow the mind of the rest of you, I have seen your stuff once I learned the term. This is neither humour, no trolling. I am reaching out, the universe put you on my feed and I roll with the will of a sentient universe as best I can understand it (double slit observation, quantum field probability, first observer, type sciency stuff). My autistic 'special skill' turned out to be climate change and the right kind of solar punk inventive mind to rise to the challenge. I will give you a real basic invention to whet your appetite. do some research into black body solar thermal technologies, foam glass, possibly, if it already exists yet, molten glass concentrated solar thermal as an upgrade to molten salt, where we can also divert this lovely liquid glass to our construction scale glass3d printer. Combine the lot and what you can achieve is a black house, where the inner walls are made from foam glass, that is completely recyclable using only solar, that is fire proof and amazing insulation and encapsulating this on the outside in normal glass is an entire whole house hollow pipework to pump air or a refrigerant in or even water that is absorbing ALL of the suns energy but not letting it affect the residents. Whole house recyclable heat pump that accepts virtually all of the energy the planet can throw at it... Now, before we continue, I have to ask you a personal question. are you veggy or vegan or trying to head in that direction? The solar punk thing I belong to, that may possibly be offering invites... will have nothing to do with folks that kill and eat sentient beings. Our prefiguration is EPIC!! You may call it, multi species saving... I am not entirely sure you are aware of the magnitude of the problem. you may be sceptical if I say it is way sooner and beyond IPCC worst case, but I am right on this and I follow who is widely recognised as the OG of climate change, his name I will not mention in this particular post because the algo shadow bans me enough as it is. Sure we can have some back and forth on here, but what I am really looking for solar punk to solar punk during the current mass extinction, is a private pen pal conversation about it all using an encrypted mail such as proton, because solar punk has enemies that would do great harm to any genuine emerging power. time is very very short.
this is great, although it feels more like a part 1 as many things seem to have been left unsaid? like colonialism and the fact that you can’t prefigurate out of a genocide that ur government is committing 😅 prefiguration is essential to building the community bonds and habits necessary to resource a successful revolution but it is not the revolution itself. indigenous communities have never stopped living prefiguratively and they are still being massacred for it all over the world. historically every mass movement of prefiguration has received violent state aggression.
Hiring leaders to make decisions for us is the entire reason nothing gets done. We can't leave the fate of our planet up to elected politicians and their corporate donors.
🙄 What freaking planet do you live on?? Little more than a glance would inform you that they're *_not_* doing their jobs. _At all._ Our "leaders" are too busy actually _prolonging_ problems so that corporations can profit off of those problems... threatening and arresting those who try to help each other, or, _actively fighting against the will of the people._
8:00 I love how any time philosopher tries to articulate the best way to treat each other they find their way back to the work of 1st Century Judean philosopher Jesus of Nazareth (may His name be praised)
@@canadiangemstones7636 I wonder when in western society religious persecution became okay by progressive standards. Or maybe it's always been okay and with all the progress of progressivism you guys just never got around to "Don't insult people for their religious beliefs"
@@zyaicobAh, but then religions have never waivered when they decide to eliminate other religions or atheists They see it as 'doing god's work' (funny how such an all-powerful being can't do that work for himself, but must rely on the murderous ambitions of his tiny, insignificant creations, which were created to inflate his ego with continuous worship here on Earth and forever afterwards in Heaven. Should any of those creations then have doubts about him, then they will be thrown into an eternal torture chamber. Nice. From that, I see why a lot of Americans go with an ex-President that gave massive tax breaks to the super-rich, while his fans slid deeper and deeper in want and debt. Once the human mind is conditioned to accept a cult that worships an invisible, non-tangible, fairy tale creature that never helps them, that abandons them in a world wracked with increasing tragedy - then it is just as easy to accept a national leader that demonstrates the same level of indifference. It's a state of cultivated cult-mindset, and the religious are perhaps the greatest obstacle that Humanity has suffered in the past, and continues to suffer to this day Since many think of the current environmental crisis as part of god's plan, since they read and accept in their holy book that the planet is here for their use and exploitation, that they use it as a means to reject science, as a reason to reject education, as a reason to declare war continually against nations of alternative faiths that they consider an abhorrence to their own faith - this pretty much sums up most of the problems that have led to this environmental crisis in the first place.
Not too many people can articulate so precisely the issues with society and our environment, but even fewer can present actual solutions and a message of hope. Well done!
@@wildworld6264 thank you!
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation
Except there isn't one. We're 90 seconds to midnight. We're in an existential climate crisis.
@@TheDoomWizardexist as though you’re in both realities at once. Because even in a doomsday scenario, I can still fight to make things as good as possible for my community with the time I have left
Think of the Black Panther Party in the US Civil Rights movement. They led one of the most iconic political education and mutual aid efforts centred around a better world for black liberation. They were doing the work, believing they were on the cusp of revolution, like the comment said. But they also existed in an era of ongoing racism in the most carceral nation in the world. The same colonial capitalist forces that have led to the climate crisis have already been felt by BIPOC communities for centuries. They know what 90 seconds to midnight feels like - and still, they put in the work. You can hold both realities in your head at once
I love how in the beginning you have a lonely duck on the bed, but when you mention community it gains two little friends
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The thing about David's work I always loved is the idea that communal, democratic and equalitarian modes of governance are self-consciously chosen by the people themselves. This is of course known by anarchists ideologically but the fact that he and the anthropologists that influenced him could demonstrate it in communities that had never heard the word anarchism is very cool. It shows that the impulse towards equality and freedom in humans is as natural as any other.
So where is the impulse to guard it against corporate and oligarchic bullies than seek to restrain freedom? Why is it that all we see is completely disenfranchised people at the bottom and a middle-class who is just comfortable enough not to want to rock the boat, or worse, actively licking boots?
@@PinataOblongata well there's this thing called revolutionary struggle that people have to choose to engage with.
@@abbanjo13 my point is that it seems like choosing not to engage in revolutionary struggle seems more inherent to human behaviour than doing so. And when you think about it, that makes sense, at the risk of constructing an evolutionary development just-so story; we come with a certain level of risk aversion and we tend not to stick our necks out unless we've got nothing left to lose. People can become desensitised to quite terrible circumstances, even.
@@PinataOblongata This is why I think history from below is so important. There are unexpected examples of revolutionary struggle in history that resulted in the formation of liberated societies. Many are either ignored or erased from bourgeois historiography. Take the indigenous societies of the north east woodlands of North America. While not all totally equalitarian most have a distribution of power that is designed to prevent the types of power accumulation that would result in a state. All of these societies were preceded by the very hierarchical Mississippian delta culture. Something occurred there where people chose to organize themselves in a new way.
@@abbanjo13 Thanks, I should educate myself more on this topic!
I am 100% on board with prefiguration.
My City had a bike coop I volunteer at. The organization structure is pretty flat. People come in and use our tools while we are open. We also have people who work a few hours for us and earn a bike (since we have say over what they do these few hours this is a hierarchical power structure, and I'm not sure how to get around this one.) We fix up bikes that are donated and sell them to make rent.
you could view it as instructive guidance on how to use their time effectively to the benefit of the organization. that's serving as a leader at its least hierarchical.
The algorithm threw this at me and I'm going to like, comment and subscribe because more people need to see this. While I don't consider myself an anarchist, I found the first half of this video incredibly effective at describing the need for community organizing, the importance of which I do agree with. The second half deepened my previously much more superficial understanding of prefiguration. Will look at more of your videos!
Thank you so much!
I think most organizing that embodies anarchist principles, is done by people who do not consider themselves anarchist. I mean, anarchists tend to be very active that way and have build their political philosophy around it, but mutual aid, direct action and prefiguration are very common human tendencies (and fortunately so, without mutual aid we wouldn't even have made it as a species)
I opted to try out option 4. Planting species for butterflies, but still working on other points. Definitely feel that community is so important in it and I feel it is needed for success going forward. My plan is to create a decent garden style for butterflies, water conservation and soil building to work as a model to show people to try promote the idea. I have managed to help several butterfly species so far despite it being less than a year of the garden's life so far. The plants within the space I will use as host plants to do cuttings to give away to people plant in their gardens
That sounds amazing! 🦋
well done, garden meadows are great. I turned an acre of olive and almond trees in the Sierra Nevada of Spain into a meadow between the trees. The trees are happy too. So many butterflies. I dont cut the meadows until they dry out at the end of summer, bees and beetles, wasps, crickets cicadas etc abound. Help other people to make meadows and not to mow until it all dries up
I remember having a similar thought about fireflies. When I was a kid (20 years ago) the nearby park would be filled with them and we’d often play among them. I would put my hand out and they would land on it for a little before quickly spreading their wings to fly away again. Today, I go to that same park and I don’t see a single firefly. I wonder where they all went…
I tried this in my workplace and got nuked.. crucified and then flayed by the people who really like the world as it is. 😢
Doesn’t mean I won’t try helping butterflies again.
I love how you have appeared in my feed, and love your word salad. It makes a huge amount of sense to me ❤
I had a similar thought as prefiguration once. A problem I see is that many people aren't reachable by government or environmental organisations. The whole society can be seen as a web of interconnections, with each person usually having friends/family that aren't that ecological aware but connecting to them for other reasons. If some people start an idea and convey it to others with patience and understanding, i think it can make waves in the whole society ^^ (and with enough people we can actually let the ideas become law/reality xd)
I love that idea, that society is a web of interconnections!
I learned in another video (about fast fashion, but the point still stands) that if only 3% of people make a change in their daily life (like not buying fast fashion or not aquiring many clothes at all anymore) that others will notice and follow suit, and that is when real change happens. That is a pretty cool and encouraging statistic to me!
@@yellowzora That is pretty cool, that's the thing with social tipping points. Thanks for sharing ^^
But do you think this 3% just have to do it in quiet?, because it seems hard to notice if someone is buying less clothes. I think it's when these 3% bring there views into conversations where the real change can happen.
Though I know how hard it can be to bring in ecological concerns in conversations, because some people just put you in a box and don't take it seriously. But once 2 people in their proximity start to raise that concern, they might start a process where they also rethink their opinion.
Hope it makes sense xD
It might be less people needed than I fear are, but it's gonna take a lot of effort to convince the minority actually in charge of the real Problems.
Also the majority of people I meet are so tranquilized by what society has become, they don't wanna hear about the future and see no worth in a sustainable one.
Thus so many people happily agree with the easy "solutions" (😂) for example the right wing shoves into their bums.
It might be less people needed than I fear are, but it's gonna take a lot of effort to convince the minority actually in charge of the real Problems.
Also the majority of people I meet are so tranquilized by what society has become, they don't wanna hear about the future and see no worth in a sustainable one.
Thus so many people happily agree with the easy "solutions" (😂) for example the right wing shoves into their bums.
Awesome, love hearing more about prefiguration. And I love how you're presenting it here.
@@TheQuietPartisLoud thank you!!
All your butterflies must have moved into my garden, I've seen lots this year! I'm also letting the front garden grow wild while I'm working out what I want to plant there that looks pretty, is not toxic to cats (my little fluffy idiot will try anything) and works well for bugs, plus I need to actually have the money to do it! Loved the video, I'm working on getting more active in the community, even picking litter will make a difference 😊
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing going to get better, it’s not.”
Thank you for this content! It’s a good reminder to continue to be that change you want to see.
I think this kind of world-understanding needs to be organized by a large, „grassroots and flat“ organization. Because it takes A LOT of effort and time for any individual living in this world to bend their minds around the status-quo of capitalism and the workings of society, technology and nature. Very few people will come this far in their lives. But all of this will only work if the majority of people understands and supports it. An organization like this could combine all five of your points and include education and opinion-forming into it to bring solarpunk out of its niche into the mainstream.
This was a cool explanation of prefiguration. Made me excited to see so many cool projects people are doing
It was exciting for me when I realised just how much is already going on out there
@@solarpunkalana yeah that's really cool info. Thanks for that
Awesome, thanks! "Prefiguration", great concept to help focus on alignment. A good lexicon addition for me.
One example of prefiguration in my community are tool libraries. People can borrow tools for free to complete gardening or renovation projects. We also have a babysitting co-operate group I’ve been meaning to join :)
Thank youuuu for your kind words of encouragement and love of the world and the people of this planet 💕 I really hope that you will be happy and healthy and that we will get to see each other in the future 💕 thank youuuu and thank youuuu
The summer has been just fine here, in SW Scotland - but the number of butterflies is still dramatically reduced.
So, it's not a cold summer thing going on (wish that was the explanation).
I've noticed severe slumps a few times over the 21 years I've lived here - despite making this garden much more wildlife-friendly (totally No Mow for 21 years, adding wild flowers, adding nectar rich shrubs, adding and/or encouraging relevant food plants).
There used to be a small but stable population of the Chimney Sweep moth here, a creature I'd never seen elsewhere. Despite sowing and growing more of its food plants elsewhere around the garden, rather than see the usual half dozen moths, I've seen only one.
Same with the moths that usually inundate my Buckthorn trees, eating them bare. This year, few caterpillars, very few moths, and the trees still have a great deal of leaf.
My Buddleia and Agrimony plants are normally smothered with activity. Seen no butterflies on any of them yet, but the blooms are at their peak.
So, where is everything?
I haven't finished watching this video yet. I was diverted by your introduction ie. that Democracy has to be more than a vote every 5 years. I say this regularly as it helps define that the the UK isn't a democracy but I haven't come across this simple analysis from anywhere else. Thank you for putting that plainly.
I'll finish watching this and work my way through your other videos1
This video gave me hope, thank you for sharing your perspective! I have been trying to get back into my local community for years, I went sober in 2019. eventually I realize that I needed to prioritize my mental health and healing before I could actually engage in a productive manner in my community without burning myself out completely. I think I'm finally reaching that point where I'm ready to get back out there, I want to be a catalyst for change!
How's this wonderful video not picking up faster? 👍🏻🔥Yarr!
I mean them algorithms, there we go, every occasion for a comment counts;)
@@JoshTheWhale Awww thank you! I think you win at fastest comment I've ever got on a video lol
Excellent and useful video! I love when people correctly label solarpunk as not just an aesthetic but a social and political movement towards collective and community action!
I love the video Alana. This was amazing communication skill and technique like I haven't seen in a long time.
In my city, we have multiple different mutual aid groups, at one point last year it was estimated that combined, the people were feeding almost 2,000 of their neighbours, every single day. By now, it wouldn't surprise me if were closer to 5,000 now. Its a very very inequal, racially segregated city on Turtle Island. Weve been able to prefigure in a few other areas as well. Coops are very popular, being somewhat rural(for a city), numerous community defense groups, workers assemblies, safe street folks who help with overdoses and shelter for many who have fell sick with addiction. Theres quite a few nature reserves, and reforesting, rewilding going on, some even with state funding. And this isn't even including the countless indigenous community groups in various different formations and levels of "democratic" influence (most are, but some are still run traditionally, whichever way the specific band or nation has historically done things).
Its easy to feel like there's nothing we can do. But we can. You just have to put yourself out there, in whatever way you can, in making and assisting in the creation of the systems and formations we want to create. Theres a bit of social psych that comes into play as well that can be almost an additional 'kick' that rewards our brains when we cooperate and solve problems with others in a way that can be rewarding for everyone involved, it builds the solidarity we need. We need each other, and becoming close with people in your community, doing something, and seeing real change is infectious. But here's the where the kick comes back, is when you fail, because we all fail, the drive for getting that almost emotional 'high' from the success in connection with your friends, community members, tribe or comrades is what drives us forward.
Whats something that you care about? Think about it, and then see if there's already a group in your area doing such things. If not, make it, advertise it, poster, whatever, people will come. And if you do it on a consistent basis, you start to build a group that can contract and expand as the need or interest desires, but basically in anything you do, there should be 'almost' no limitations on who you allow to participate.
Sorry., this was just kinda a 420 rant and thoughts running through my head after watching this and realizing that yeah, we can do this. We just need to be more inviting. ;)
Thank you so much! I 100% agree with what you’re saying. I think it’s also about believing whether people are inherently cooperative or competitive… I’ve heard a lot of people in the climate space say climate change will never be fixed because ‘humans are so selfish and will never learn’ but I just don’t think that’s true. The fact we’ve already got so many mutual aid groups and other prefigurative practices disproves that. And on a personal level it definitely is so rewarding to get involved with these initiaves! Glad to hear of all the projects already going on in your area
If I've grown more than i need them i put the extra produce on a table outside me house so people passing can get take it. I've got apple, pear and plumb trees and do the same when they produce.
I've asked also done a little bit of gorilla gardening by planting some sunflowers on a stretch of dirt near my house.
It's a start.
Makes me feel hopeful about the future, which is saying something. Hearing the examples of actions around butterflies made it easier to understand what I can do for the causes I care about. I'm going to share this video with friends.
Aw thank you! ☺️
Great content that is sorely needed in our struggling world. One suggestion: I notice that you edit your video so there are no pauses, and I think that does not give your great ideas time to land before you are on to the next thing. Every idea you are conveying deserves a chance to be noticed and absorbed.
For a better future! Thank you for the video.
Thank you for watching!
Watching this made me happy and hopeful. Thank you!
Oh my god waiting in line for the buss!
Thats so crazy cause I just had the weirdest experience when I went to England where I litturally just went to go on the buss and this lady was like "Um exuse me I was here first, theres actually a line behind me" and I was like "what? Hey were all gonna get on the buss if you wanna geton first thats all good by me but I don't think it makes a difference" then got on after her
And then sure enough on the trip back it did genuinely look like people were getting in a long line for the buss and I was like "whootttt??"
Its funny how even though we Australians come from the English but theres still cultural differences, like I don't think iv ever seen a line for the buss or train before, people just kinda crowd around the door and get on in a random order
Lines seem kinda dumb if theres going to be enough space for everyone though tbh no offense
Hahaha I mean in France it’s the same, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an orderly queue for the train 😂 definitely a very British thing
people don't line up for buses in this country, what you've encountered there unfortunately just an entitled and unpleasant person. i have had a similar run in with someone like that moaning that they got to the stop first so they should get on first, but that idea is so bad that only a fringe minority of self centered people could think that way. there's lines to board which is pretty much unavoidable, but it's not like an organised line where people who got to the stop first get on first
The UK is noted for their queues.
Cute and nicely rounded up
Solarpunk is a way!!!🙏💚🌍
Plant native species if you can. Even a couple native plants in a container, on a balcony helps. I’ve included native flowers, bushes and shrubs in my yard. I’ve noticed an explosion in insects since I started doing so.
I saw a Monarch today :)))) and have seen a ton of little tiny ones, I wish I knew more about the little animals. Lovely presentation! Already kinda trying to get the community going, but its so tiring to exist sometimes.
1:33 5. Organize as the workers we are and change the system that oppresses everyone and is the source of problems plaguing us
your channel and your videos have arrived to my life in a moment during which i really really needed this language and i am so thankful!
Thank you! ☺️
Bless you. You're a breath of fresh air and a beacon of hope ❤
Thank you!
That was a super good video thanks for all that info!!!! I appreciate it so much and it really does give a good path towards improving the world. I LIKE SOLARPUNK A LOT TOO!!!!
What a wonderful presentation
Kevin Carson has a (freely available) book that touches on this topic it's called Exodus General Idea of the Revolution in the 21st Century (a nod at Proudhon's book about revolution in the 19th century)
Great video!! Sharing with my solarpunk circle :)
Thank you!
This is very inspiring! I'm going to plant butterfly attracting flowers in the garden of the house we are completing buying today 😊
That sounds amazing! 🦋
Loads of Trefoil, that's a good food plant.
Also, if you find somewhere selling Pignut seeds at a reasonable cost, sow a few of those along the sunny side of any trees/shrubs. Never know, you may get the delicate little Chimney Sweeper moth.
Just 2 days ago, I found a number of caterpillars munching leaves on a young Birch I have in the garden. No idea what this can be, but left them to it (this Birch is just one of several hundred here anyway, and I know they spring back quick enough from any disaster).
A nettle patch by a sunny wall, of course. The inevitable Buddleia, Spiraea and Weigela. And if you have lots of Tortoiseshell, Peacock and Red Admirals in your area - see if you can get your hands on a piece of the (very tall) Hemp Agrimony. It's a butterfly magnet.
I haven't mown my grass in 21 years, and some butterflies do thrive on grass. I'm having trouble with butterfly numbers this year, for some reason. Perhaps wind carried sprays from the farm next door? But grass is great for a number of species. I just walk along certain paths and cut back whatever tall grass flops over onto the pathways.
Excellent video!!
Hard to avoid politics when you truly want to know what’s threatening ecology. Graeber wasn’t perfect, but he sure got a lot of people introduced to the main underlying concepts of modern anarchism. A lot of stuff has changed since the 1800s and a lot of people missed those new insights… there’s quite a bit to read for anyone wanting to
I just notices the earrings, so cute and matching the rubber ducks on the bed too! ❤I love your videos!
Thank you! They're one of my favourite pairs :)
im happy to see someone thinking exactly like i do! I'm thinking about getting politically involved in my town, maybe i can change something :)
The revolution lives.
Earned yourself a subscriber with this one!
Thank you algorithm ❤
Thank you for clicking and watching :)
I teeter back and forth on prefiguration. Though work needs to start now, there is a catch. Not everyone is politically educated or ecologically educated. Why does this matter? Well, prefiguration has been tried in conjunction with horizontalism and it failed miserably, so much so that the political climate we in live is a knock on effect of those experiments.
In the 2010s horizontal movements sprung up throughout the world, triggering the most vigorous protest era the world has seen. Some of these protests led to large prefigurative communities (Tahrir Square). These communities were organic and egalitarian. But these protests, which were widely popular, were quickly co-opted by the state, more centrist/conservative media, and conservatives.
Why did this happen? There was no clear ideological message, political power, or organization. This has happened broadly in our culture as well, as we see people like Steve Bannon and Trump speaking to working class people with class consciousness, though it is completely empty. There is no left opposition because horizontalism has been the prevalent mode of organizing for the past twenty years or so.
What is this all to say? Horizontalism and prefiguration could work but we need to learn from these huge mistakes. I’m not saying we need Leninism or Maoism but perhaps there are lessons there as well. We need political and ecological education, and intersectional one at that. That’s why I love Solarpunk.
Read If We Burn by Vincent Bevins and Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein.
Love your channel keep it up!
Edit: Obviously there are many reasons for there being no left opposition. To my point, I think I made sense but broadly to make that the single reason, ie horizontalism being the dominant philosophy of the left, there is no left would be reductive. It still stands that it is an issue but one of many.
So I go back and forth on this quite a bit, its kinda what led me towards democratic confederalism, because it can be built into the 'state' apparatus or outside of it. I for one think that there should be room for some sort of recallable delegated representation, in some matters, unions work like this now, everyone gets a vote, but not every member is at the negotiating table. Good unions allow the negotiation board to be recalled if the strike/negotiations are going poorly. etc. I think Id call it like a psudeo-state. It can act like a state, but is direct democratically consultative in major decision making.
Like take the Maoist Mass Line, but you can make that digital at this point, and because of that, you don't have to restrict access to information to party members only due to logistical reasons. Everyone is autonomous, membership in groups is by attendance. and one vote is one vote. majority rules, but if ever the majority wants to recall the question at hand, they may be allowed to do so. This can be done in person, online, via text, encrypted end to end, etc, Like we could logistically have a direct democracy if we wanted to. And then groups and associations of people would offer delegates/representatives/members etc to various meetings to offer solutions and plans, to do whatever it is they're recommending.
I also don't think that having a 'vanguard' or even party structure in the early days is a bad thing. PKK-Rojava Zapatistas-EZLN-Chiapas. Its actually probably a good thing. This is why I still think that if the state exists, and unless it collapses due to outside forces, climate, war, economic collapse, any number of SHTF scenarios, a party, or army that takes over the state and deconstructs it from the inside out is almost certainly necessary, and sometimes by force if necessary in defense of themselves, or others around them. Civil War, Ethnic Violence, Religous/Racial prosecution etc.
Right. So im gonna need some co-founders.
Great video Alana! Have you come across the concept of the velocity of money before? Or mutual credit as an extension of mutual aid?
Thanks! Yes I've come across mutual credit before - I actually have a group in my area (part of LETS) who are using a local currency to exchange mutual aid. Haven't heard much about the velocity of money, do you have any recommendations on where I can find out more?
@@solarpunkalana Accidental Gods Episode - Let’s get rid of Money and start afresh! Dismantling the Super-Organism with Diana Finch, is the most recent place I've come across it. I'll try and remember where else I've heard of it
5. Create Open-Source HardWare solutions that people can build for themselves. :D
The RSPCA is a good example of this. Their labels on the packets of animals bodies in supermarkets that were exploited, and violently killed, means they are perpetuating a vile and cruel system towards non human animals.
I am very careful about the charity I support.
I love this video so much. Some of these things are really great, but unfortunately I don’t know how to apply them to my life as both a student, minor and a person who lives with their parents who has different beliefs. Any tips?
Brilliant
Great work, thank you.
Thank you for watching!
My buddlia bushes have not had a single butterfly on all summer, very worrying to me, hardly any bees either this year.
I have been enjoying your videos a lot :)
Great video. Very thought provoking. For anyone interested in practical steps to help insects I very much recommend 'The Garden Jungle' by Dave Gouldson
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll have to take a look
Yes. 🙌🏼
I've thought pf the concept of prefigiration but i hadnt heard the term yet
Won't many of these be unwinnable battles with the for-profit forces still working against them?
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Local government is where it's at, but you're right, the status quo has got to go!
I'm not going to spam with a video link, but if you'd like to keep wind turbine blades out of landfills, check out my solarpunk pitch in ASLA's Game Changers competition. It's titled "Blades for Shade"
Commenting for algorithm engagement. Good to see more people speaking up about the importance of community!
7:02 So I'm an anarchist if I wait in line to enter a train or bus?
Yes, if you believe in organising yourself without hierarchy (state, corporations, police) then you are indeed an anarchist.
Anarchists are just regular people who don't need to be told what to do or coerced into working together to do the right thing, whether thats politely standing in line at the bus stop, horizontally organising protests or cooperatively providing services for the community.
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Look up the "everyone is informed" thesis😏
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So vanilla, but got the idea
you're so cool! xo
If you want to dive in to anarchist understanding of politics you might like the channel What is politics, its explains how power works in society. :)
If anyone likes this channel i would also recommend Andrewism
Turn that lamp off.
Great video, I liked and subscribed.
Cool I learned a new word. I didn't know the word prefiguration before.
Solarpunk community, please share your thoughts on carbon capture.
Abundance of clean energy is key to unlocking global sustainability. New technologies should respect the natural balance of the Earth. Obviously, the goal with carbon capture should be restoring the pre-industrial atmosphere rather than extending the resource extraction timeline.
We need green ambition.
clean energy is a problem and we do not have time to solve it.
energy use has to got down drastically to become sustainable.
@@sudd3660, we are swimming in infinite pools of energy. One only has to learn and harvest it.
Do you believe it would be easier to correctly insulate every home on Earth than to collect an abundance of energy from wind, ground, sun and sea? Of course, every step taken towards sustainability brings us closer to our goal, but energetic austerity would undoubtedly get implemented from the bottom up, following in the footsteps of the capitalistic inequalities.
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my point is that for anything to be a solution it needs to be low impact, and less use of tech or overbuilt. in other words use less resources on the problem with the way we live and where we live.
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Oh no they're multiplying, run!!!
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Representative democracy sucks. I hope our future (actual) democracy will be something like Polis (pol dot is).
you are amazing!!
Thank you!
Poppycock.
lol, I am joking, just catching your attention Alana.
I am a self manifested autistic solar punk.
Some of my technologies would blow the mind of the rest of you, I have seen your stuff once I learned the term.
This is neither humour, no trolling. I am reaching out, the universe put you on my feed and I roll with the will of a sentient universe as best I can understand it (double slit observation, quantum field probability, first observer, type sciency stuff).
My autistic 'special skill' turned out to be climate change and the right kind of solar punk inventive mind to rise to the challenge.
I will give you a real basic invention to whet your appetite.
do some research into black body solar thermal technologies, foam glass, possibly, if it already exists yet, molten glass concentrated solar thermal as an upgrade to molten salt, where we can also divert this lovely liquid glass to our construction scale glass3d printer.
Combine the lot and what you can achieve is a black house, where the inner walls are made from foam glass, that is completely recyclable using only solar, that is fire proof and amazing insulation and encapsulating this on the outside in normal glass is an entire whole house hollow pipework to pump air or a refrigerant in or even water that is absorbing ALL of the suns energy but not letting it affect the residents.
Whole house recyclable heat pump that accepts virtually all of the energy the planet can throw at it...
Now, before we continue, I have to ask you a personal question. are you veggy or vegan or trying to head in that direction?
The solar punk thing I belong to, that may possibly be offering invites... will have nothing to do with folks that kill and eat sentient beings.
Our prefiguration is EPIC!! You may call it, multi species saving...
I am not entirely sure you are aware of the magnitude of the problem. you may be sceptical if I say it is way sooner and beyond IPCC worst case, but I am right on this and I follow who is widely recognised as the OG of climate change, his name I will not mention in this particular post because the algo shadow bans me enough as it is.
Sure we can have some back and forth on here, but what I am really looking for solar punk to solar punk during the current mass extinction, is a private pen pal conversation about it all using an encrypted mail such as proton, because solar punk has enemies that would do great harm to any genuine emerging power.
time is very very short.
this is great, although it feels more like a part 1 as many things seem to have been left unsaid? like colonialism and the fact that you can’t prefigurate out of a genocide that ur government is committing 😅 prefiguration is essential to building the community bonds and habits necessary to resource a successful revolution but it is not the revolution itself. indigenous communities have never stopped living prefiguratively and they are still being massacred for it all over the world. historically every mass movement of prefiguration has received violent state aggression.
Don't u have green party in uk ? 🤔
"In all of this do you notice one word that's missing?"
Jihad.
"Community."
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Your solution is literally why we hire people to run our country. Its like your telling people to do the work that our leaders are supposed to do.
Hiring leaders to make decisions for us is the entire reason nothing gets done. We can't leave the fate of our planet up to elected politicians and their corporate donors.
🙄 What freaking planet do you live on?? Little more than a glance would inform you that they're *_not_* doing their jobs. _At all._
Our "leaders" are too busy actually _prolonging_ problems so that corporations can profit off of those problems... threatening and arresting those who try to help each other, or, _actively fighting against the will of the people._
8:00 I love how any time philosopher tries to articulate the best way to treat each other they find their way back to the work of 1st Century Judean philosopher Jesus of Nazareth (may His name be praised)
Shame your invisible sky fairy never lifts a finger to help, even though he’s all-knowing and all-powerful. 😮😢
@@canadiangemstones7636 I wonder when in western society religious persecution became okay by progressive standards. Or maybe it's always been okay and with all the progress of progressivism you guys just never got around to "Don't insult people for their religious beliefs"
@@zyaicobAh, but then religions have never waivered when they decide to eliminate other religions or atheists
They see it as 'doing god's work' (funny how such an all-powerful being can't do that work for himself, but must rely on the murderous ambitions of his tiny, insignificant creations, which were created to inflate his ego with continuous worship here on Earth and forever afterwards in Heaven. Should any of those creations then have doubts about him, then they will be thrown into an eternal torture chamber.
Nice.
From that, I see why a lot of Americans go with an ex-President that gave massive tax breaks to the super-rich, while his fans slid deeper and deeper in want and debt.
Once the human mind is conditioned to accept a cult that worships an invisible, non-tangible, fairy tale creature that never helps them, that abandons them in a world wracked with increasing tragedy - then it is just as easy to accept a national leader that demonstrates the same level of indifference.
It's a state of cultivated cult-mindset, and the religious are perhaps the greatest obstacle that Humanity has suffered in the past, and continues to suffer to this day
Since many think of the current environmental crisis as part of god's plan, since they read and accept in their holy book that the planet is here for their use and exploitation, that they use it as a means to reject science, as a reason to reject education, as a reason to declare war continually against nations of alternative faiths that they consider an abhorrence to their own faith - this pretty much sums up most of the problems that have led to this environmental crisis in the first place.
Anarchism is not the solution!
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So what is then!? What's your answer??