Episode 5.10: The Us vs Them of Community: Ariel & Christina Discuss

On some very serious level, it’s just not solarpunk if it’s not about a community taking action to make the world a better place. Individualism: it’s just so wrong. It’s fair to say that, not just in solarpunk, but in our cultures, “community” is right up there with “children” as an idea of something inherently good, moral, and wonderful. Community is worshiped as an answer to our problems. But Christina gets a sinking feeling every time she reads a solarpunk story that idolizes community.In this episode, Christina tries to figure out why she’s so suspicious of community and so afraid of being suffocated by the rules, regulations, and norms of community. Join us for our Season 5 closer in which she and Ariel peek at community’s darker sides, like infighting, conformity, the potential for ostracizing people who don’t conform, and the fact that the existence of a community automatically creates a them.

https://youtu.be/FpgQh0kPKJY

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Check out the blog to get the scoop on artist Kuma, AKA... & her latest EP "Faye Loves You"! The first of our "Fashion Breakdowns", this week Thrifting Basics! And my mission statement as well as my own personal back story about becoming scene!

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...All the techniques Thoreau advances in Wild Fruits are perfectly ordinary and would not raise a ripple, though they might at first raise a few eyebrows: Take a walk; bring the kids; invite the neighbors. Share the work; share the pleasures, too. What kind of community will bring the world of Wild Fruits into being? What kind of community will those wild fruits in turn sustain?"

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@teadrinker
my experience of sheep areas in NSW in the early 90s was that they //desperately// needed them! I had to leave an #alternativeCommunity - #ecovillage it might be called these days - which we were visiting because I couldn't cope with the flies.

@astobart it’s a wonderful plant and we are so fortunate to have so much growing wild here in #Washington I’ve learned so much about #wildcrafting from Michael (Skeeter) and his videos are crammed with info. Check out his website for links to all sorts of good things https://friendsofthetrees.net/ a true visionary with #permaculture, #EarthRepair #AlternativeCommunity