Hope and imagining a better future is a crucial element of working towards such goals. Hope, like memory, is a mental capacity that can be trained. Reading solar punk novels can be part of motivation, even agitation. Calling it fascistic because it isn’t enough is like calling walls anti-housing because a wall is worthless without a roof. Well, it is a start.
When the aesthetic takes the place of the movement, it turns from useful tool into an obstacle to overcome. That’s why there needs to be a strong theoretical background using it as agitprop, and not just existing as something to be freely twisted to suit anyone’s narrative.
If it can be twisted to suit anyone’s narrative, why demonize it instead of using it for our narrative? Why focus on how it can be used instead of using it for good? Why alienate people who enjoy it instead of trying to win them over? I’m not even sure if you defend the post because you do not really seem to agree but neither do you explicitly disagree.
I’m not demonizing it. I partially agree with the post, but my opinion is as I stated it, solarpunk is devoid of a strong ideological backing and needs one to be a truly useful tool, otherwise its use is highly dependent on whoever is wielding it. Same issue that cottagecore ran into. It isn’t inherently bad, nor is it actually a good thing as it stands.
Hope and imagining a better future is a crucial element of working towards such goals. Hope, like memory, is a mental capacity that can be trained. Reading solar punk novels can be part of motivation, even agitation. Calling it fascistic because it isn’t enough is like calling walls anti-housing because a wall is worthless without a roof. Well, it is a start.
When the aesthetic takes the place of the movement, it turns from useful tool into an obstacle to overcome. That’s why there needs to be a strong theoretical background using it as agitprop, and not just existing as something to be freely twisted to suit anyone’s narrative.
If it can be twisted to suit anyone’s narrative, why demonize it instead of using it for our narrative? Why focus on how it can be used instead of using it for good? Why alienate people who enjoy it instead of trying to win them over? I’m not even sure if you defend the post because you do not really seem to agree but neither do you explicitly disagree.
I’m not demonizing it. I partially agree with the post, but my opinion is as I stated it, solarpunk is devoid of a strong ideological backing and needs one to be a truly useful tool, otherwise its use is highly dependent on whoever is wielding it. Same issue that cottagecore ran into. It isn’t inherently bad, nor is it actually a good thing as it stands.