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In EN, the word "work" comes from "do." In FR, "torture." Think about the difference in perspective. I do. It comes up as a US leftist in France, trying to communicate my ideas. In Pravic (I recently finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin), same word for work & play. In Ecotopia, the protagonist remarked on how work and play seemed to go hand in hand. Think on that. It's a koan, maybe.
#leftism #ursulakleguin #buddhism #english #french #etymology #koan #thedispossessed #ecotopia #zen

I'm an anarchist. And with that I have faith that in the right circumstances, people are generous & solidaire & good & helpful & everything. But oh god damn do I have moments where I'm like "why are you all this oblivious?" I guess it's just not the right circumstances, but come ooooonnnnnn. Help a guy out
Anyway, reading The Dispossessed is this year's Ecotopia for me. It's my little hopium book
#anarchism #leftism #misanthropy #hope #idealist #thedispossessed #ursulakleguin #ecotopia #hopium

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"It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go."

#ErnestCallenbach, 2008

nytimes.com/2008/12/14/fashion

#UtopianFiction #SolarPunk #Ecotopia

@Crystal_Fish_Caves

The New York Times · A ’70s Cult Novel Is Relevant AgainBy Scott Timberg

Futuro

Si viajo con la imaginación hacia el futuro e intento conocer a dónde nos ha llevado la crisis ecosocial, me encuentro siempre volviendo al presente con más preguntas. Una de las más inquietantes es la pregunta por la identidad de lxs humanxs que hoy vivimos y nuestro papel en esta historia. ¿Nos recordarán como lxs “buenxs ancestrxs” de Roman Krznaric? La pregunta por el futuro es la pregunta por el tipo de persona que queremos ser hoy.

ecosentires.writeas.com/futuro

ecosentires · FuturoSi viajo con la imaginación hacia el futuro e intento conocer a dónde nos ha llevado la crisis ecosocial, me encuentro siempre volviendo al p...

Finally writing the first part of I guess... A manifesto? That sounds a little highfalutin but I need if only for myself to try to write down in words a sort of unifying theory of my political beliefs, my religious beliefs, my very unscientific ideas on ecology and my undying ultimate concern to understand my fellow humans. #writing #nonfiction #manifesto #politics #religion #ecology #humanism #buddhism #zen #leftism #communism #anarchism #degrowth #ecotopia #revolution #paultillich #tillich

#Gaming about the #ecotopia
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