#i dont care that bad about it as a storytelling genre myself tbh

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after a nap thinking abt it im unsure if a greater criticism of solarpunk is the interchangeability of the genre and its real world equivalent ideology where the former's degradation in media into an aesthetic without any teeth in it (i think something like hippie as a counterculture being subsumed in consumerist ideas/livestyle until in present day its associated largely to racist appropriation of "fashion choices" more about what you buy than how a culture lives) as businesses and markets capitalize on selling back empty signifiers of solarpunk. (or how goth/emo culture was a counterculture lifestyle and way of thinking before being sold back to the masses in the form of torn faulty cloth safety-pinned back together by factory workers that get respiratory illness and more from working in poor conditions, an antithesis of what goth/emo was before)

or if a greater criticism is solarpunk in media and practice has a lot in common with issues cottagecore has, inherently idealized/glamorized worship of aesthetic signifiers, racist correlations with manifest destiny & 'return-to-tradition' escapism ignoring any reparation, and the like.

Ask someone what solarpunk is, the average person would probably not know or point to like, the chobani commercial rather than any real world application of its ideology. it does exist tho and the real world communities and cooperatives in practice i think are important to study as means to a portion of a clean future on earth and its one of 'soon to be lost to time as an simply an aesthetic' modes of anti-capitalist sustainability I'd be kinda sad was lost to time without being in portions interjected into larger culture