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Might be controversial, but I don't. Because solarpunk is insistent on the notion of negative rights, the notion of how one lives their life remains the same as today, and no better than the hunter-gatherers of the past.

There will always be those who seek more, who admire those towers reaching into the sky, even as others admonish it as tyranny. And they are right, ambition will result in tyranny, in oppression and conflict, but even so, I would still believe in a future over an eternal present.




You need knowledgeable citizens who are not afraid to act. They will naturally push back those people who seek more power/status.


How did that work out in the USSR and CCP, where groups regulated the corrupt power of others on behalf of the people?

What you’re describing is the perennially utopian pitch of Marxist societies — a century of failure, not withstanding.


> How did that work out in the USSR and CCP, where groups regulated the corrupt power of others on behalf of the people?

You are right, and the US won that battle. But let’s wait a few years as that winning looking quite so solid today.


I'm not sure how many "knowledgeable citizens who are not afraid to act" existed in USSR towards the end.

I don't get it. What do you prefer? The inverse?




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