Comments by "pongop" (@pongop) on "" video.

  1. There's a novel called Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, written in the 1970s. Looking back on it now, I think it might be classified as pre- or early Solarpunk. It imagines the west coast as Cascadia, an autonomous bioregion that integrates ecology and technology in a beautiful, utopian manner to meet people's needs. There is some conflict in the narrative and there are some questionable cultural practices that make the society less perfect. So it might interest you, but it is overall more nice and fluffy, especially compared to Cyberpunk. Ooh, and have you read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin? It's more sci-fi and less Cyberpunk or Solarpunk, but it addresses the issue of conflict, scarcity, and outside threats in a utopian, anarchist society. I was reminded of this book by your comment: "It's about maintaining and defending utopia from the remnants of capitalism that haven't yet died. It's not about success, not just about pretty pictures of cool buildings and happy people; it needs to be about the struggle, and the purpose that motivates it." The novel discusses that revolution isn't "the" revolution, a one-time fix to society's ills, but rather a constant, ongoing, living revolution, or series of revolutions, that we need to keep alive. Anyway, those are just my thoughts.
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