troy on revolution

troy wiley on revolution via troy tweet [https://x.com/troyrwiley/status/1794809784824365156]:

The Next Copernican Revolution 2 – Backcasting From the Future – Chapter 3 – My Cloud Atlas [https://radicallypractical.substack.com/p/the-next-copernican-revolution-2]

notes/quotes from ch 3:

The Next Copernican Revolution 2 -Backcasting From the Future – Chapter 2 – Solarpunk and Visionary Fiction are Imagining and Creating a Better World – may 19 2024

This new renaissance genre is markedly different from the steampunk and cyberpunk trends that came before it. Perhaps arising out of what anthropologist David Graeber calls “Despair Fatigue” this new solarpunk trend seems to be radically optimistic about creating a better civilization in which humans and our high technology are totally in alignment with nature. It’s a world not based on fighting evil corporations, the elites, robots, each other and nature, but instead on symbiosis, freedom, cooperation and what might be called post-scarcity anarchism—think love instead of pitchforks.

david graeber‘s despair fatigue article: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/despair-fatigue-david-graeber:

The ideas I’ve quoted flow from a discussion of the current dark and gloomy steampunk and cyberpunk ethos, to the considerably bright, radically hopeful vision of what’s being called “solarpunk anarchy”

Ursula LeGuin just gave an incredible speech at the National Book Awards, where she talked about this and said people can’t imagine a world without capitalism. Well, there was a time when people couldn’t imagine a world without the divine right of kings. But the writers, the visionaries, those folks who are able to imagine freedom are absolutely necessary to opening up enough space for folks to imagine that there’s a possibility to exist outside of the current system.”

ursula le guin

findings:

1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen

2\ if we create a way to ground the chaos of 8b legit free people

walidah: “With Hunger Games we were so hopeful it would present some kind of transformative vision, and then with Mockingjay…it just got terrible. At the end what happened was the same thing that always happens, we’re back to status quo. You know, rebellion doesn’t matter, because at the end of the day, it will just be the same thing it is, because thats’ what humans do, so why even bother. So you know what it does is allows us a *rebellious outlet while reinforcing the hegemony of the system.. We absolutely have a responsibility, a right, and a privilege…to dream the impossible and then to make it happen.”

hunger games.. mockingjay..

*any re ness as cancerous distraction

From an article on the Solarpunk Anarchist site: When no place on Earth is free from humanity’s hedonism, Solarpunk proposes that humans can learn to live in harmony with the planet once again.. while Solarpunk at first glance centers around technologies that help create green utopias, the most important part of the movement is dealing with the real human challenges of living together on this planet..That is likely due to the *Solarpunk belief that the technology we need for a utopia is already here; we just haven’t found the political will to enact one..t

solar punk.. anarch\ism

*huge.. there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap (political will).. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

To give you more on the ethos, here are some quotes from the article: Solarpunk Anarchist Solutions to Global Problems: A Quick List

  • “In the very long term, the only thing that will suffice as a solution is total system change. A structural transformation of the capitalist state system to a *completely different social, political, and economic mode of power.
  • The automation, through the applied use of human-scale eco-technologies, of as much needless human toil as possible so as to eliminate jobs that fall under the “Three Ds”: Dull, Dirty, Dangerous. And the reduction of what anthropologist **David Graeber calls “bullshit jobs” which have no reason to exist.
  • An ***economy which has moved beyond scarcity to the point where markets and even money are no longer necessary, with people being able to take goods freely..t from stores.
  • The ****free movement of all people due to the elimination of nation-state borders and the equalization of economic abundance.
  • The birth of a new *****ecological global culture reconciling humanity with the natural world..t

So basically, ******Post-Scarcity Anarchism.”

*haven’t yet tried something legit diff.. why not yet et al

**bs jobs from birth

***perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting) as the planned obsolescence w/ubi as temp placebo.. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition

ie: ubi as temp placebo.. (people thinking they have money when really just getting whatever they legit need.. till they forget about measuring)

oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space

****siddiqi border law

*****need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs

******post scarcity anarchism

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via troy tweet [https://x.com/troyrwiley/status/1802352616300532005]:

The Next Copernican Revolution 2 – Backcasting From the Future – Chapter 4 – Over the Cliff Notes: Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Edward Bellamy, 1888 https://open.substack.com/pub/radicallypractical/p/the-next-copernican-revolution-2-0aa

notes/quotes from ch 4:

The Next Copernican Revolution 2 – Backcasting From the Future – Chapter 4

One of the first and greatest, in my opinion, examples of “coming from the future” was a book published in 1888 by the American Edward Bellamy called Looking Backward: 2000-1887. It was an enormously influential book and the third-largest bestseller of its time, right behind Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. According to Wikipedia, “It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day…It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement”. In the United States alone, over 162 “Bellamy Clubs” sprang up to discuss and propagate the book’s ideas.

need a ‘movement’ where the propagation/discussion of ‘ideas’ (curiosity) happens first in each heart.. (maté trump law; brown belonging law; et al)

Unlike many sci-fi books, Bellamy explored very little of the external, technological advances that might happen, but instead focused on the cultural and internal changes within humans by the year 2000. It’s an interesting read, especially in “looking backward” at how a man from 1888 envisioned a possible future over a hundred years later and compared it to his time. 

today need tech.. imagine a turtle ness.. to facil the seeming chaos of global detox leap

tech as it could be

although he imagined what in today’s terms is called a “guaranteed basic income” that was provided to every citizen in his year 2000 (which, by the way, has been advocated by many great thinkers since then like the American Martin Luther King and Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek), couldn’t he have imagined the possibility of moving beyond mediums of exchange altogether?  Although they did not have money per se, nor monetary exchange, they still had credit cards to use on acquiring the things they needed. But I wonder, if the state provided for all basic needs and there was no need for private property and thus no profit motive, couldn’t he have imagined the elimination of credit entirely, as there was simply no need for it?

perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do) as the planned obsolescence w/ubi as temp placebo.. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition

ome of Bellamy’s profound concepts, which I have organized into general categories or themes, similar to how I categorized and analyzed Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present in chapter three of my first book The Next Copernican Revolution.

howard zinn

 if we can transcend the flatland of a monetary socio-economic world, than anything is possible

if sans any form of m\a\p

On the Distribution of Goods – No Money, No Bankers, No Savings

 legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition

No man any more has any care for the morrow, either for himself or his children, for the nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

cancerous distractions.. need whatever ness via sabbatical ish transition

Concluding Thoughts

Ideal and utopian indeed, but Bellamy paints a world that I would love to live in, compared to what we have now. And perhaps the most stark realization is the fact that we have not achieved his ideal world by the year 2000, nor are we any where close to it in our current year 2015. Now I consider my self to be an optimist and I do recognize and appreciate that we have had incredible breakthroughs in science and technology and, to a certain degree, in culture and society, brought about by the industrial revolutions. Millions live like kings today compared to our predecessors. But billions of people today, more than the entire global population in 1887, live worse off—barely or not at all meeting

mufleh humanity law: we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity– Luma Mufleh

So Bellamy was indeed a utopian who was way ahead of his time. His utopian visions need to be resurrected as our only hope for human survival, let alone our thriving, in the way he envisioned. We need to transcend the flatland of money altogether if we are to have a realistic, and quite possible, chance..t of realizing Bellamy’s world.  

perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do) as the planned obsolescence w/ubi as temp placebo.. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition

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