In my mind the punks arose in England at a period where the UK was enduring ongoing pain from the end of their global empire. Quoting the Sex Pistols:
No future, no future for me
No future, no future for you
The solarpunk movement is different. It shares the punk recognition that mainstream ideas are poison, but in the rejection it embraces a hopeful attitude, with the belief that people can work together to make things better.
I always saw the rhetoric as disrespect and irreverence for Thatcherite wankery, rather than nihilism. All the punks I know care about people, which is why they are so angry with the anti-people forces of corruption and corporatism.
Anarchy, which has been inextricable from the punk movement since the start, isn’t nihilism. it requires a belief in people’s capacity to self-organise, to help each other, and to resist the jackbooted thugs trying to stamp on your face by kicking them in the bollocks first.
Solarpunk grew out of that movement as a way to become decoupled from the grid, and free oneself from polluting industries altogether. Don’t fight to become the overlord, like democrats. Reject the overlord, deny their power, and live your life without their strings.
A lifetime of sex, drugs, and socially progressive politics is pretty based
Sounds pretty punk
Punks are a bit more nihilistic than Franklin was, I think?
You’re on a solarpunk instance and you think punks are nihilist?
In my mind the punks arose in England at a period where the UK was enduring ongoing pain from the end of their global empire. Quoting the Sex Pistols:
The solarpunk movement is different. It shares the punk recognition that mainstream ideas are poison, but in the rejection it embraces a hopeful attitude, with the belief that people can work together to make things better.
I always saw the rhetoric as disrespect and irreverence for Thatcherite wankery, rather than nihilism. All the punks I know care about people, which is why they are so angry with the anti-people forces of corruption and corporatism.
Anarchy, which has been inextricable from the punk movement since the start, isn’t nihilism. it requires a belief in people’s capacity to self-organise, to help each other, and to resist the jackbooted thugs trying to stamp on your face by kicking them in the bollocks first.
Solarpunk grew out of that movement as a way to become decoupled from the grid, and free oneself from polluting industries altogether. Don’t fight to become the overlord, like democrats. Reject the overlord, deny their power, and live your life without their strings.
Capital is a crime. Don’t be an accessory.