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> Younger folks have more and more trouble imagining a better world. It's crippling. Not the young folks I know. My 16 year old has a very strong vision of a b
by circlefavshape 5y ago
> Younger folks have more and more trouble imagining a better world. It's crippling.
Not the young folks I know. My 16 year old has a very strong vision of a better world, as do many of her friends
- 30367286 5y agoDo you believe they have the tools to create that vision of a better world?
- awild 5y agoWhat fisher and I suppose GP is saying that a future radically different from our own. Especially one that is not inherently just window dressed capitalism. In zizeks words "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" Without context these sound like hollow leftie catchphrases but especially Mark Fisher managed to show in many ways how this manifests in capitalist realism
- rektide 5y agoEscaping the bitter long path dependency we're on- not just trying to rectify some wrongs, but to really make better goes, make some changes to really try over, try better- it's so hard. I really want to see a more progressive activitism take off, see some shared hope for much wider, much better. Rather than just tangling with iniquities, trying to vault to a higher level.
- ancientworldnow 5y agoThey almost certainly envision a world similar to now but with the glaring problems fixed. Mark Fisher is writing about the inability to imagine and begin to create entirely new futures (for examples look to the utopianism of early 20th century futurism).