Solarpunk gets a bad rap, but I'm hard pressed to think of another contemporary genre that's actually imagining hopeful futures.
Everything else just seems to assume that Things Will Continue to Get Worse (and frankly, I don't know if I can blame them)
Everything else just seems to assume that Things Will Continue to Get Worse (and frankly, I don't know if I can blame them)
Comments
Young ppl should be revolutionaries; Gen Z seem resigned to a lurking doom.
We in this world are often the walking dead.
The sleep walkers.
LIVE.
As long as we live there is still hope, and when we don't, either we won't know or we'll just come back.
https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism
I think it's actually quite compelling to explore what human struggles would be after we solved big crises.
some younger folks are actual musicians
As for content in utopia, I think it's entirely possible to still have conflict in utopia. It just shifts what KIND. A lot more internal stuff.
I've scene games that lean into the Solar Punk aesthic:
Season: A letter to the future
Caravan SandWitch
Mutazione
That said, more hopeful sci-fi/fantasy story settings please!
Even that has its end and struggles of you watch ST Discovery.
The prime directive is an elitist and cruel policy. We gondia would never let a less technologically sophisticated civilization suffer
Technofetishism is a real and current problem, and while solarpunk embraces technology having a role in the solution, it is not THE solution.
1/
There’s “Station 11”, “Sweettooth”,…
Not true SolarPunk exactly… BackToTheSimpleLifePunk? 🤔
2/2
Technically I'm also an example I believe.
This is it.