Lyrata

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[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

Then I'm sure you're also familiar with the ransacking of Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexology in 1933, where some of the first treatment plans for trans people were developed. It was a place where gay people and trans people were accepted and treated with respect by medical personnel.

That famous picture of the book burnings? Those were patient records and the research archives of the institute. So no, it did not just start with gay people, and trans people's persecution by nazis was relevant to bring up because it's one of the first kinds of persecution the nazis did. Dismissing that is ahistorical and dismissive of the history of oppression of trans people.

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

You're describing anarchism ;)

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're looking for theory, The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin is where it's at

Any sci fi novel by Ursula K. le Guin will have solarpunk elements, especially The Dispossessed

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

It's Danish for 'kiss'

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not only representative politics. We need to focus on grassroots initiatives as well.

Both is good

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're also supposing that this climate crisis that the governments are currently inflicting on their people is not violence. And that the police beating protesters is not violence.

It is violence, and we should be able to defend ourselves.

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

The title was edited then, it didn't say it before.

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

This is AI art. Please disclose that

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Wtf are you on about you weirdo

Also, that's an american flag with pink lighting

 

I have recently read Le Guin's The Dispossessed, which is a wonderful look into a Solarpunk world. However, an important critique that the book emphasizes is that this new Solarpunk society (or, well, an Anarchist society really) has produced a 'tyranny of bureaucracy' and a number of social pressures that stifle individual ambition and that punish those that are different from the norm.

Would you agree that Le Guin's critique can be useful for the solarpunk movement?

I have attached an analysis of the novel as well.

In the novel, the two most prominent slices of reality that require complementary interpretations are Shevek’s General Temporal Theory and his vision of anarchism on Anarres. Just as he sees Sequency and Simultaneity as complementary, so he sees individual freedom and social responsibility as the complementary manifestations of anarchy. Moreover, Shevek is able to comprehend anarchy in a complementary way only because his view is based on the theory of time that he has developed.

[–] Lyrata@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Bugs are always a trophic level above plants. It's always more efficient to 'cut out the middle man' and eat plants instead.