#Crisis in Utopia

[tomoleary]

Hubert Rogers (1898-1982) Crisis in Utopia (1940) Source

[thenwothm]

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[bckalleycat]

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[astralhope]

Yuma beings Astral's main concern even when Astral himself is in danger.

[the-paris-of-people]

The past couple days online have been... interesting. I consider myself a leftist, think capitalism is corrupt, and think that it needs to be seriously reformed/overthrown. I admit that while I've thrown around phrases and terms like "burn it all down" and "the revolution needs to come" out of frustration without actually thinking about what a revolution entails: excellent organization, unity, and strategy to defeat the United States, the world's largest military superpower which has inflicted political and social destabilization across the majority of countries around the world. There also needs to be superb infrastructure and community to support the disabled, elderly, and poor populations who rely on government assistance and programs, healthcare, and accommodations while this so-called revolution rages on.

All I've received from the far leftist movement are lectures from condescending intellectuals who rattle off academic citations regarding ideological theory rather than practical, tangible steps to advocate for change in our local and regional communities. I have not seen one of them actually discuss conversations they've had with their friends, family, or Americans about what they want to see reflected for the future of the country. I have not seen one of them discussed how destructive, detrimental and traumatic a Trump presidency was for social prejudice and morale in the United States. I understand that for many marginalized groups they've been living in a facist state for centuries so the possibility Project 2025 doesn't galvanize them to see the two parties differently, but I don't think it is fair to white leftists falsely equivocate the election of both parties for the entire American population at all??? Or like at least specify the issues you're referring to in which you view both parties as the same????? Literally one TikTok creator who I used to follow talked about how true leftists are so much better than liberals because they aren't waiting for a presidential candidate to save the world NOW due to the accelerated apocalypse due to climate change but when asked how to change the world they suggest sharing ideas of your future utopia with other leftist groups. How the fuck is sitting around talking about living in a walkable community is great considered "saving the world now"? How are you going to dismantle and restructure American infrastructure to create these communities? How are you going to remove existing racial and social tensions to create a community where everyone lives happily side by side? Do people not consider reality at all?????

And is it not wrong for people to have a fucking sliver of optimism and hope at incremental change that's achieved within the corrupt bipartisan system of American politics, even if they know it's propaganda??? Is it wrong for people to have a singular fucking moment of relief in feeling like their values, beliefs, and lives will be better protected and THEY can advocate for change better??? Is it wrong when there's a couple months until the most pressing election in recent history for people to make the choice they feel will reduce the most amount of harm???

[arolesbianism]

Y'know the fun thing abt how I've set up the society that the main stalien cast comes from is that even the most broad general trends across stalien societies tend to not apply to them. So everytime I yap about how most herds form and the general trends in their societies I just get to remember mid yapping that basically none of this will ever be evident or even come up in the main story. Damn isolated motherfuckers

[theoreticallysensible]

“Despair, it seems, is hope’s deepest well… During the crises of capitalism and climate, despite the “vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness” [quoting David Graeber] to which we are captive, there has been no shortage of alternative futures, not all of them alarmist or apocalyptic… Visions of a new social order after capitalism abound. If these are not signs of hope, what is?”

- S.D. Chrostowska, Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics

I love that final question, in how it’s ambiguous whether it’s just pointing out that people have hope, or whether it’s saying that (because of this?) we should also have hope, because there really is a chance for a better world!

[im-getting-help]

i can't find the motivation to keep going guys!! i think i lost it a while ago but i didn't notice lol i think it probably slipped that time i lost my wallet? idk

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[dererumnatura-0]

Every trustable authority society once listened to is saying the word:

Genocide.

Every imperialist, from overt slave state to wage-slave state, is attempting to make it as if it’s the normal due course of business: this genocide and these child disappearances and subsequent mass enslavements of some sort or another. They want us to accept this and be defeated in spirit.

They have a spirituality like a Caste system, so fatalistic. Where they both hate theirself and don’t know theirself either. Where they hate ambiently because ‘who doesn’t’ as if the only way to socialize is the phony comedy that just makes fun of people using outdated & never ok stereotypes. They think love and kindness are phony traits children use to get spoiled, because the only time they are kind to others is when they are using them. They live in a Usury world, called capitalism. How many of these people were molested or raised by the narcissist dysfunction that precipitates from the mass pedophilia enacted by the Catholic Church, Boy Scouts, & not to mention the pedo rings the State deals in for its secrets. Note that State has no state lines. It’s the centralizing force, which is what makes it fascist, that it would subdue or caste away the wilderness within you (within them too). The result of childhood use, abuse & neglect. I do hold some sorrow for them.

Meanwhile there’s the sorrow of the masses.. 3 elucidating factoids from David Graeber’s Debt, a 5K year History:

1) Often times throughout history, usually-white (white-capped, I say) Christians have economically positioned people of other religions, particularly those of Jewish origin, to be their bankers primarily and specifically Using them to perform usury through banking, usary being forbidden in Christianity.

2&furthermore) Graeber points out an old axiom: While if you owe the bank 100K the bank may own you, if you owe the bank 100Million then you own the bank.. which clarifies to me how that economic positioning continues to this day and in current affairs and makes obvious why the Erik Princes of the world have their war drums thumping. So, while “all wars are bankers’ wars,” the bank may not call its own shots.

3) 💖Just wrapping everything into a nice package for me, Graeber clarifies why the UAE is funding genocide in Sudan (and stealing their children and women) and why the US has seen a resurgence in patriarchy. He says that the Bible of capitalism, “The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith, is almost a grab bag from ancient Islamic spirituality. This also explains why the current surge in military patriarchy is so aligned with these emperors of oil, not to mention convenient real estate deals. But, students of economics, did you know that Adam Smith knew lobbying would destroy his delicate version of capitalist utopia. Adam Smith knew lobbying would destroy democracy..

So, Beware the white Christian apocalypse project involving fake ufos, widespread profiteer wars, and ambient hate. Men taking more than they give just because they can. Disassociation and hypervigilance, neighbors spying or being told to spy. The allowed poisoning. This pergatory of Earth.

✨ Love, that is why we cry, because it is all you can do for humans. It is all you can do for the ones who wish to subdue us. Some would eat what eats them. I can’t change them, I can only show them what love is by example: What it is to love this planet, this life, the absurdity & diversity & chaos. What it is to love all of nature. Grow your wilderness 💖🍀✨

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"COMMITTEE FAVORS SELECTING JOBLESS TO WORK ON FARMS," Toronto Globe. April 12, 1933. Page 11. --- Motion Sponsored by Fraleigh and Newman Referred to Henry ---- MANY SPEAKERS HEARD ---- The Committee on Agriculture went on record yesterday in Queen's Park as favoring selection of unemployed men who would work on farms for board and lodging, with a minimum wage to be paid by the Ontario Government, and the organizing of others unemployed for other public services. The motion, sponsored by H. T. Fraleigh (Conservative, Lambton East) and William Newman (Liberal, Victoria North), is referred to Premier Henry for consideration.

Another resolution sponsored by Mr. Fraleigh and J. A. Craig (Conservative, Lanark North) urges Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Provincial Minister of Agriculture, to continue his efforts in conjunction with the Federal Minister in pursuing a further policy to aid the marketing of live stock.

Financial Aid Sought. H. L. Craise, President; W. W. Robinson, Vice-President; and C. I. Delworth and E. J. Atkins of the Fruit Marketing Council, sought aid of the committee in obtaining financial assistance of the Government to carry on their work. The efforts of the board in obtaining markets for produce which might have overflooded Ontario markets, was stressed and compulsory registration of growers urged. If the latter was possible, a fee would take care of the operation of the Council, it was explained. The question was left to the Minister to deal with.

Special speakers addressed the committee on timely subjects. D. А. Campbell, live stock shipping agent, of Montreal, reviewed export costs and told the committee of the various types of cattle suitable for the British market; J. M. McCallum, Chief of Stock Yards Service for the Federal Government, read an extensive address on "Export Cattle"; and F. C. Fletcher, General Manager of the Union Stock Yards, spoke on stock yards' service.

Reports Tabled. A comprehensive report and several recommendations were tabled by W. J. Bragg (Liberal, Durham), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Fruits and Vegetables. Other reports were received on live stock, from Mr. Fraleigh; on dairy products and egg- grading, from Chairman James A. Sanderson (Conservative, Grenville); and on colonization, from Hon. Dr. Paul Poisson, Chairman of that special group.

The several subcommittees were praised by Chairman J. E. Jamieson (Simcoe, Southwest) for the labor and time they had put on their several reports. Chairman Jamieson's report will be tabled in the House today.

[rodaportal]

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[the-nyanguard-party]

the imperial core has a very limited to nonexistent revolutionary potential right now and are generally unreliable: true, i am a known holder of this stance and i think it follows from theory and is verified by empirical evidence

however there are still internal contradictions (there is still working class dissatisfaction with capitalism, the core is not a post-scarcity egalitarian utopia) that communists can work with for smaller scale goals that benefit the movement in the long run (like disrupting the arming of zionists - there is a basis for this, people do already express their dissatisfaction with it and try to protest it from time to time just in a disorganized and easily supressed or coopted manner) and provide experience in organizing that prepares for a future where intensified contradictions can be taken advantage of - a crisis of imperialism, inter-imperialist war...

i think you should take criticism of the lack of revolutionary potential of the imperial core as a challenge rather than as an excuse

[erstwhilesparrow]

unrelated to anything else except for maybe the fact that i just woke up i am still thinking about bigb double life session 3. why was he like that. why did any of those things happen. he had a sword in his hand nearly the entire time. bigb i'm obsessed with you

[foone]

All this Kurtzman/Section 31 stuff reminds me that not enough people have seen (or understood, I guess) Star Trek:Deep Space Nine.

Because it gets described as "it made the Federation a morally gray society instead of a utopia!" or "it fought back against Roddenberry's vision for the Federation and Star Trek!" and it's like... did you watch the same show?

DS9 didn't think the federation was any less of a utopia, than TNG or TOS or VOY, it said EVEN IN A UTOPIA, THERE WILL BE CHALLENGES, THERE WILL BE USURPERS, THERE WILL BE SNAKES IN THE GARDEN: THAT IS WHY WE MUST FIGHT!

Homefront/Paradise lost are about how even in a utopia, authoritarians will sell fear and get people to give up their freedoms. Fascists will burn the Reichstag to create a crisis they can exploit.

Doctor Bashir, I Presume showed that for a society without money, people still worry about success, and their legacy, and they'll do horrible things to their children to make sure they can be that legacy. And the episode CLEARLY DISAPPROVES OF THIS! The man responsible realizes the error of his ways and submits to punishment to save his son.

I don't want to list examples all day, I have other stuff to do, but DS9 very much didn't say "utopias aren't real, every so-called utopia has evil somewhere in the foundations", it said that utopias are something you have to fight to maintain. You can't take the easy answers, listen to the fascists promising safety, and avoid examining the faults of your society. Sorry. But the good news is that you can, you can win, and you aren't alone.

DS9 was aiming for more of a "realistic utopia" than other Treks, it's true, but despite that realism it still said a utopia was possible. It used that realism to show that a better world must still be fought for. And it warned against anyone selling easy solutions to those battles.

Because as has been pointed out recently, fascists don't sell eternal war and oppression to the in-group: they promise safety and power and belonging and prosperity. They're gonna oppress them to save us.

DS9 said those men are not to be trusted, and must be opposed. It won't be easy, there will be struggles, but they will be stopped. The world will get better. We can do this, together.

I don't know about you, but I find that more optimistic than if they hadn't, and just said The Federation is Perfect Forever.

[letialia]

“Il nostro è certamente il Paese delle grandi abboffate e del clima da cartolina, ma al giorno d’oggi quest’ultimo è frutto di un riscaldamento della temperatura che rende roventi le estati e tiepidi gli inverni. Il caldo si diffonde già con le prime avvisaglie del mese di febbraio e si trascina oltre ottobre.”

«Sindaco, lei lavora per una città che entro trent’anni avrà il clima di Tunisi, le cui case non sono state progettate per il clima di Tunisi. L’anno scorso mi sono trasferita a Firenze e speravo di innamorarmi della sua città, invece dopo dieci mesi sono scappata […] Non è una città per cittadini […] È una città completamente asservita al turismo di massa e non ti fa sentire a casa, non ti fa sentire la benvenuta. Trovare una casa è stato un incubo, ogni spazio pubblico è stato privatizzato ed è dedicato a catene di fast fashion e fast food […] Nardella, visto che sono serviti cinquemila litri d’acqua per pulire la facciata di Palazzo Vecchio, ci fa due conti e ci dice quanta acqua serve per mantenere in piedi tutta questa giostra meravigliosa che è Firenze? Ci fa anche due analisi dell’Arno e ci dice cosa ci ha sversato dentro?». (Pomiato, A., in Siamomine 2023)