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This is a Rant. I know I should write my own fiction with blackjack and hookers but just let me get it out of my system.

I've read some solarpunk at this point (mostly short stories) and the number of times that I've read the equivalent of "and we all decided not to be jerks to one another and agreed to a bunch of stuff" it's basically a meme at this point. Yes, Solarpunk doesn't need to be hard sci-fi, there can be fantastical elements, but can we get over the "we magically work as one humanity now"?

I think it's OK to have a world that, without mass media and government control, we would realise that people are friendly and getting things done is easier than it seems, but it's also OK for this to be done in pockets. It's OK for there to be raiders and selfish people and people who still endeavour to pollute and it's OK to have bad guys. It's OK for the indigenous ways to just be the norm rather than the exception, but there are still a lot of ancap crazies out there.

So, if you're writing climate fiction / Solarpunk, please consider not doing that. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 year ago

still better than “benevolent billionaire saves us all with his special ‘green’ technology that he’s been developing in secret”

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

I like the meme that came not too long ago:

Frank Herbert: Special drugs will save humanity.

Isaac Asimov: Special mathematics will save humanity.

[-] seanbala@mas.to 15 points 1 year ago

@uriel238 @cerement

I feel like we could go on -

Octavia E Butler: A Special Destiny will Save Humanity.

Ayn Rand: Special Rich People will Save Humanity.

Any others? 😂

[-] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

I wish great man theory would just die.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Though if the billionaire dies which allows the scientists to disobey constraints and figure out some science breakthroughs, then it becomes a mutuality story. That Dang Dad did a critical analysis of the movie Tár deconstructing great man theory.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[-] dillekant@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

🤣 true dat. I guess the capitalist fiction we have to swallow every day is even more infuriating.

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