I wonder why there's nearly 200 comments in this post
This is a really interesting point. But the fascist art is always historic "better times" shit, depicting an old world in a utopian way (without people in it). It's never the future.
Futurism and ecomodernism were/are both pretty associated with the furthest right.
I'm a fan of the YouTuber "andrewism", who regularly makes videos on an anarchist solar punk society. I don't think he supports solar punk just as an aesthetic, but believes it's legitimately part of what an ideal and egalitarian society would look like, alongside other concepts he's discussed like library economies.
I don't think solar punk is idealist either. Idealism doesn't just mean it's still just a concept, or that people want to use it as a goal. Solar punk is materialist because it describes a society that reproduces the values that sustain it, like land stewardship and collectivism. It describes a super structure with communal control of resources, which then does the whole self reinforcement with the base (which, admittedly, solarpunk also describes). It's not just the aesthetic.
I've enjoyed his solarpunk stuff because he does give a much more pro-social and conscious tilt to it, as opposed to the tendencies within the solarpunk trend that myself and others have been criticizing here. Not a fan of his sectarianism, though.
And here I thought the low population bit was supposed to be because technology and decentralization allows humanity to spread out and higher standards of living and education being the birth rate down 🤔 I guess either way we're making a lot of assumptions about a hypothetical commercial like future aesthetics....
This thing had 3 comments when I went to bed. Did Yogthos rile up the libs again?
EDIT: Nope, just another struggle session.
It's a nice change of pace from our usual AI struggle session though. :)
This might be the AI struggle session in disguise, because when I googled "solarpunk" to figure out which side I was gonna bat for (I already knew the genre but I wanted to make a point about what most people that are just learning about it might see) it was all AI generated. Ironically, I know you land more on the pro-AI side of things, that immediately galvanized me in the anti-solarpunk side.
ok that's pretty funny actually
Solarp8nk could be an actual thing if it was actually punk in any way. Like a critique of the greenwashing many companies and countries like to do.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
