A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.
Plant those trees, even if your life sucks, even if you have no children or family or your own. You never know who will end up using your good works for more good. The fact that they may not be used is not a reason to not bring them into this world.
Humans are in an endless battle against entropy. Anything you build for the sake of the future is a little win.
Does it matter if our names will be remembered with reverence for what we have done? No it does not, the act of giving the future opportunity to thrive is what matters most, because all of us have stood upon the works of millions of nameless men and women whose work supported our way of life. We don’t know all their names, and that’s okay. What matters is the evidence of their works, and those things will truly be remembered. (For good or ill)
Even if you don’t have hope for yourself, please don’t lose hope for others.
Thanks Snotflicker, that’s the exact spirit I needed today, onwards and upwards!
i agree with you except on the strange anti-‘entropy’ stuff
Not really strange. You need to act to prevent things from falling apart.
And that relates to entropy how?
Entropy is the natural inevitable averaging out of everything in any closed system.
It is the inevitable falling apart of things.
Good man. These are the positive memes I need in this trying time.
Thanks for the ref
Merry Bookchin. I wonder how long the Anti-Civs take to visit as well. The cycle continues.
meme is from srslywrong podcast iirc
There are so many authors to let into my soul and digest. I operate a small 501 ( c ) 3 think tank so I’ve been in the process of letting Paul Feyerabend into my soul. It’s a real emotional move to sit down and start absorbing a new author, to be honest. I was going to start on Marcuse next.
Can you promote or mention your organization? Sounds cool.
Cascadian Laboratories Incorporated “CascaLab” on Facebook pages. Our website is down and our donation mechanism doesn’t work right now. We’re very small and new, since 2022 we were founded. We do almost nothing but feyerabend-inspired research remote from one another. It’s kind of coddiwompling and we try to research ways of making sure we’re not doing armchair research, that we’re actually testing real world things. One thing I test is home economics solutions. We’re actually wondering about creating a federated network of nonprofit think tanks of similar size just meeting the minimum requirements for a 501 ( c ) 3 each of them rather than actually scaling. I picked some of my closest friends, those among them who were most excited about doing it. I used legalzoom to create it.
Wow that sounds cool, I don’t know that kind of research so I’ll search and study about it. Hope you have great success!
Is this Solarpunk?
Homie, social ecology is about as solarpunk as you can get.
Also: please keep the solarpunk policing to a minimum.
social ecology is very popular amongst solar punk fans and vice versa yes
I would say so, yes. If solarpunk is the aesthetic vision of the future we hope for, social ecology provides a political critique and path towards achieving that vision.
I hope they are real
