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This is now also a space for organizing tips for our collective survival as we confront climate change and everything else. Still no doom-posting. We're here to work together, support each other, and boldly face the future.
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Hello people of Hexbear.
I originally made this post here in 2025 and have now returned to post a message on it from the year 2060. Some amazing scientists from Beijing have made it possible to send messages through time and they gave me this opportunity as I have been around for the world revolution. We thought it would be important to let our comrades of the past know that it will indeed get better.
I suppose you would be interested in knowing how and what has happened. I cannot go into the details too much as protecting the timeline is a worry, but I will say that everything happened a lot faster than we ever expected in 2025. The USA essentially balkanized after the AI bubble burst and the power grid failed there due to the energy demands that were greated by the same bubble. Revolutionary conditions formed seemingly overnight in hindsight in several places of the Earth. Dollar hegemony ended and so did nato, all the US military outposts faced slow ruin and China with the Global South really took the lead on where the Earth will go next. There were and still are problems, but this isn't a message about those.
About three decades ago the Earth Alliance was formed and today this socialist project includes most of the nation states that in 2025 made up Asia, Africa, Latin America, The Middle East and Europe. Some areas of the former USA are also newly joint in the alliance, but unfortunately some areas have turned to isolationism and are currently out of our reach. Their resources are however streched very thin as they refuse to trade with the Earth Alliance so it is expected their population will demand they join sooner or later. We support our comrades in those places in all the ways we can.
I still live in what was then the Nordic countries. I got to build the socialist project as a part of my local governance as I previously worked in social services under capitalism. I am now retired, but still have a voice in these matters, just like everyone else.
Our first job was to make ourselves obsolete and we set out to provide things like housing for all a few decades ago now. I am happy to tell you that homelesness and poverty have globally mostly been abolished and resources reshuffled in a way that makes sure everyone has their needs met. There is meticulous central planning on a global scale and this was mostly modelled on the Chinese lessons of building socialism. We are still in the beginning chapters of this work, but I am happy to tell you that we are able to build for abundance with the resources we now have, instead of scarcity. For the last decade I got to work in community work that focused on local food production and it turned out to be the most meaningful thing I ever did.
What has really changed the way the world looks now compared to 2025 are things like letting go of militaries and national borders. This has opened up lots of resources and people are now freely able to travel and move within the Alliance nations. Just last year I visited the Free Nation of Palestine and got to see the recovery of the olive groves over the last decades that the people there are tending. It made my heart happy after all these years and I remember the dark times of 2025 very well, we all do. Palestine was one of the sparks that freed us all and we will never forget that.
On the environmental front I am happy to tell you that fossil fuels have been phased out and the move to green energy and sustainable farming has really made an impact on the climate and the wellbeing of everyone. Other animals are no longer consumed as food and this has become common sense. Some people still grow farm animals as hobbyists but there is no need to kill animals for food. Pigs and chicken have become more like housepets and cows are mainly kept for pasturing and land restoration, not milk and meat.
Tech is used videly, but engineers now get to build things as solutions and not as grifts. Automation is used where it is deemed smart, but people also get to work on things they are good at and we make sure humans are involved in all decision making and planning.
Dreams of going to space have mostly been put on the backburner for humanity. People are these days far more interested in exploring the Earth, their home. Both on a local and a global scale. High speed rails and various engineering marvels now make exploration easy and affordable for everyone. But nowadays we are doing it to learn and appreciate our joint home and the various peoples in it, not to escape life and exploit others like we did before. Travel is restricted in many ways as well to protect our habitats, but it is possible for everyone to visit the Great Wall of China or the Amazon rainforest now, you only have to wait for your turn.
Education, healthcare, infrastructure and labor all reflect the changes of the past decades. Suffice to say that everything has changed for the better.
Gender is slowly becoming a non-question as people are better educated and pathriarchal insitutions are turning more and more obsolete due to material equality getting better. The unserious woke wars are very much behind us now, but the examples of those times are used in education actively, all reaction has definitely not disappreaded in such a short time. But we are getting there.
It very much looks like we are well on our way to communism as a species. And we have our comrades of the past to thank for this. So my message to you is: Never give up the fight, never stop believing, it will happen. It has happened.