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Responding is to give your attention to that which is being reacted upon. If you respond to JK Rowling, you give them attention. If you respond to AI, you give it attention. We expand their relevance, and forces people to take note regardless of whether they were or were not interested. You turn the conversation towards them, to their dreams. Make people fantasize about these dreams regardless of any ones stances.

It is not to say that we shouldn't respond to them, but to understand that our responses are upholding them to some extent.

So what do we do then? To not critique would be to let their ideas grow without resistance.

The idea here is not to completely stop the criticism. It is to be aware of the critique, but have a greater focus on the question:

what do we want ❓

This is particularily the responsibility of those who has become alienated by the machine. Sees how the machine is poisoning the heavens, overproducing, mass manipulation, atomization, deathening wilderness, acidifying oceans, draining freshwater, genocides people. Who sees that we are undermining the foundation of community of humanity and species.

Dreamers can't just paint the dystopic world we live in, how crazy their worldview is, and stories of dangerous futures. They also need to be a little crazy themselves. Dreamers need to paint a reality that they want to live in, regardless of how flawed the brushstrokes are.

Responders need to react to these dreamers. Those who dare to paint the future vividly and meaningfully. Our reaction waters them and gives their relevance growth.

Our reaction is a tool for change because it makes the ideas of the dreamer relevant. Our reaction is a tool to drag our dreams into reality.

But this force of responding is only as strong as we are openly making them relevant. Our responses needs to be luminated to our communities to turn them relevant. The relevancy makes the ideas into waves that travels throughout society. Our ability to start waves, ability to enter a wave. Our ability to plant seeds.

Be aware of what you react to.

reaction is a force of change 🌱

Hierarchists oftentimes say that we need the machine to ensure that we are provided for. In this sense I like to think of the machine as a mother. The motherly machine nurtures us. Gives us hospitals, passports, car infrastructure, gives us internet, gives us supermarkets.

But she can’t nurture us without vessels which pumps force of life to her. The one raising and maintaining the vessels is the fatherly machine.

Our father is efficient, and does whatever he needs to do to accomplish this. He deathen forests to set up farms. He penetrates the ground for metals, he exploits labour to the degree that it is possible, fully if possible. He grabs around that which he can, from the very biggest, to the very smallest. He sucks up life from the ocean. And penetrates the crust of Gaja to vessel oil.

The issue here is that in fern for the machine to preserve itself, it needs people to look away from the fatherly machine, because then it can get away with more providing. This is easy for the machine, because all the machine has to do is to claim responsibility for being non-exploitative. It is moving responsibility away from people towards itself.

The lokening is therefore to take back responsibility.

By doing so, we remove the dependence upon the motherly machine, and therefore also the fatherly machine.

I like to use the analogy of dreaming and painting when I think about movements.

The painter

The painter wants to communicate with himself or an audience through a language culture. The language culture is the medium in which something is communicated. Languages has strengths and weaknesses based on what is deemed as important by the language users. Based on the language culture, some ideas will be easier to communicate, whilst other ideas will be harder. The language culture is what set's the framing before an idea is being shaped.

Particularily we can say that the architect has a different language culture than a farmer. Their awareness is different. So if you have the language culture of the architect, you can paint something that the farmer might not able able to fully appreciate.

In a farement context, we can say that the language culture is democratic confederalism or solar punk.

The painter has an idea which is the cloud, and expresses something in the given language culture. Using the juggling language culture, one can say "doing a windmill while doing siteswap 531". The cloud is an abstract idea that the painter want to realize.

The cloud in democratic confederalism could be "mining away asphalt to give space for gardening" or "collaborative work".

From the cloud we can sketch the structure. With juggling it would be to get the conceptual understand the internal workings of a "windmill while doing siteswap 531". With "mining away asphalt to give space for gardeninig", it would be understanding how to do it safely, with as little conflict as possible. Sketching is the skeleton which we can put meat upon.

After sketching comes painting which is where we take all the research and describes a story that takes in all the elements. With "mining away the asphalt to give space for gardening" it would be do perhaps, make a short story of how the neighborhood came to concent about mining up majority of the asphalt to plant valuable foods.

Dream

Dreaming is like painting. You start from a language culture, make a cloud, sketch and paint. By working on all steps, we make distant utopias become real in our heads.

In particular, it is the painting process that makes stuff feel real. It is when we can read books or watch movies in vivid details and realism, that it feels real.

The thing about dreams is that the bigger and more vivid they are, the more people are going to feel invested in them. It shows that somebody put in the effort in making something they believed in, or at least that's what it seems like.

Dragments and dreaming

A dragment is the attempt to drag a dream into reality. It is to realize a dream.

It's easier to drag vivid dreams into reality, because then it has become reality in our minds. It's like taking a painting and saying: "I want my town to be like this". And then coordinate with neighbors about the vision.

Analysis of cyberpunk

We can see this in cyberpunk. A lot of people has invested louds of time painting a future where humans and technology goes together. Some are utopias and some are distopias, but they agree that this is the future. They paint cyberpunk wonders, and changes how we interact with society. Their worlds are painted forth in details such that their world feels real.

By making it real in our heads, technology companies can use these stories to drag elements of them into reality.

Cyberpunk can therefore be described as a dragment.

Analysis of Solarpunk

When we see beautiful towns filled with small scale energy production, gardening, childrens playing, a sailboat in the distance, we can't help but feel like we want to be there.

By doing this, we sow a seed into somebodies head, that it is possible to move away from the machine, because how else would that town exist?

dream drag analogy

The dream drag analogy makes us appreciate the role of culture in dragging for a better future.

I want to read some solarpunk fiction. Any authors or books you can recommend?

The flag symbolizes the core beliefs necessary for bringing about healing of Gaja according to the oakframe. The five symbols are demight, bloom, samlife, samhold and humanity.

Demight is to view might as that which prevents us from healing. It is therefore necessary to strife against it. It is symbolized with the color black.

Bloom is to view ourselves as beings of growth. To be our authentic selves and to let ourselves grow. To strive for blossoming. Symbolized with the color purple.

Samlife is to live with, not against. To live with nature, like the bumblebee. To create mutually beneficial systems between nature and humans. Symbolized with green.

The symbols in white comes from the chinese letter 人 which means human.

Humanity is to ground ourselves in humanity rather than might. To not let us be tricked into looking at the world through states, nations and economies, but rather look to the human perspective. It is symbolized with the letter 人.

Samhold is to bind ourselves to our peers. To weave a web of leaderless structure that can replace might. To aid our peers in the face of violence. Symbolized with 人人.

Note that 人人 does not mean samhold in chinese.