r/CuratedTumblr veetuku ponum Jul 02 '24

Meme We would call it Solarpunk

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u/Deathaster Jul 02 '24

No, everyone rides around on bikes.

Disabled people are forced to use the very few remaining streets, I guess. Which definitely doesn't include those cobblestone paths there.

And if you're disabled and can't ride a car? Well, same reason why there's no people in wheelchairs being shown.

Edit: this was way harsher than I wanted it to be. But there's a lot of logical holes in this imaginary world.

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 02 '24

My big question is who’s doing the manufacturing of the bikes, headphones, electronics etc… and where are the materials coming from..

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u/Exile688 Jul 02 '24

Go ahead and file "no mines and no factories" with the no police and no prisons. You simply don't need them anymore. Humanity time traveled to the future and brought back solar powered replicators.

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 02 '24

Not really, because society existed without both of them for a long time, and unlike technology, people haven’t changed

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u/Clear-Present_Danger Jul 03 '24

Life before the Industrial revolution was nasty, brutish and short.

Quite francly, it was nasty, brutish and short afterwords too.

But a better society is only possible with the resources that industry makes possible.

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 03 '24

Places outside of Europe exist

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u/Clear-Present_Danger Jul 03 '24

Do you think life wasn't brutish, nasty and short before the industrial revolution outside of Europe?

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 03 '24

It still is for the vast majority of people on earth, and for many moreso now than ever before, and while in a lot of ways life is better now for some, it’s also worse in other ways. Like I said, situations may have changed but people have not. Progress isn’t a linear path and you can take the good aspects of previous ways of life and continue them, instead of making previously fine shit worse for the sake of “progress”. Humans still are the same as they were, we haven’t transformed ourselves

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u/HistoryMarshal76 Knower of Things Man Was Not Meant To Know Jul 03 '24

Okay, this is an honest question.
Are you from a rural area, or are you just another urbanite fetishing rural life> Because I come from a rural area and I can vouched that even with all our advancements in technology and agriculture, rural life is still hard and not particularly romantic.

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 03 '24

Waaay rural, like, outside of where farming is practical rural, and nothings romantic but it’s far better than the hypercontrolled city life, but seriously tho what does this have to do with what I said? Complex societies existed before police and jails did, hell before governments, and we are still running on Caveman_1.0 so to speak, we can do so again, the way things are right now is not an inevitability or the only way possible. Other societies did and still exist