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"If something did go terribly wrong in human history – and given the current state of the world, it’s hard to deny something did – then perhaps it began to go wrong precisely when people started losing that freedom to imagine and enact other forms of social existence, to such a degree that some now feel this particular type of freedom hardly even existed, or was barely exercised, for the greater part of human history."
"The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber & Wengrow
All in all it's a really good book supporting that "it has not always been this way", that we are not doomed to go towards a global dictatorship dystopia, but that in history we had multiple examples of people dismantling hierarchies and choosing to live in flatter, more democratic and/or anarchist communities. It's just that what we define as "history" today is not really interested in such "dark ages" with no clear leaders or kings.
solarpunk prompts @alxd@writing.exchangeIt's also a great example of why #solarpunk stories - and maybe also social games, like #ttrpg s and #LARP s are needed, to help us imagine different ways of structuring our societies and communities, to playfully explore them intellectually and emotionally. Only this will give us the distance and perspective to see what is really wrong with the systems we are in, but also - a little of the healthy respite without escapism.
We are exploring those realms for a reason.
More to the point, maybe even work out how to get to a healthier paradigm for human life that includes, like, other life also?
@alxd mass larp is a really good space to these kind of explorations ... (been there done that, and continuing)
there can be groups that define their own (non)hierarchy and confront in the flesh some tough situations, often with other groups organized in a classical tyrannic manner, and it shows it can works but also the difficulties of it, and the difficulties of unlearning hierarchical structures for some/many who still waits for "leaders" for everything
@alxd I was thinking : if some wants to see how beautiful "anarchy" would look like : take a look at the photos of this event from this year, co-organized with every participant, who build their own costumes, campement, lore, co-ordinated with a common goal : to live an incredible moment together in a responsible way (incl. ecologicaly : the site is an "organic certified" farming land that is left as if nothing happened)
not one but 1000 stories co-writen by all
https://ragnaroklarp.be/en/galleries