It’s the attitude, not the bricks. If the government destroys it people can go elsewhere. The important part are the people who want to build a better future.
Sure, but not many that also have the means to accomplish it. It’s sort of tough to build a better world when you’re stuck working for an evil corporation but would be homeless and starving if you as much as took a few days off to protest gunning random innocent people down in the streets.
I don’t see a realistic way to get to that better world from where we’re standing that doesn’t first go through a lot of awful even worse than anything we see today, and very likely a lot of people being willing to die just in the hopes that it will make things better for people in the future but certainty that whether it does or not is something they’ll never see either way.
Yeah, funding is a major issue with most attempts at creating a utopian society. My plans for it involved somehow winning a lottery I didn’t buy a ticket for, having a mysterious and formerly unheard of relative die and for some unknown reason choose me to inherit their billions, or finding a genie lamp. No luck on any front so far, but maybe today will be the day.
Funding makes it easier but also more difficult. In my opinion the biggest problem is finding the people who want to live in the future. With funding, people larp just to get some of the money. Without it there are only intrinsically motivated people who work together to create the funding. Finding them is what is needed to get going.
I built one of these…
Unfortunately the government seized it, bulldozed everything, and started building a data center.
It’s the attitude, not the bricks. If the government destroys it people can go elsewhere. The important part are the people who want to build a better future.
Sure, but not many that also have the means to accomplish it. It’s sort of tough to build a better world when you’re stuck working for an evil corporation but would be homeless and starving if you as much as took a few days off to protest gunning random innocent people down in the streets.
I don’t see a realistic way to get to that better world from where we’re standing that doesn’t first go through a lot of awful even worse than anything we see today, and very likely a lot of people being willing to die just in the hopes that it will make things better for people in the future but certainty that whether it does or not is something they’ll never see either way.
Once a future city is going, people can move there and find better work. The difficult part is to get it running.
Yeah, funding is a major issue with most attempts at creating a utopian society. My plans for it involved somehow winning a lottery I didn’t buy a ticket for, having a mysterious and formerly unheard of relative die and for some unknown reason choose me to inherit their billions, or finding a genie lamp. No luck on any front so far, but maybe today will be the day.
Funding makes it easier but also more difficult. In my opinion the biggest problem is finding the people who want to live in the future. With funding, people larp just to get some of the money. Without it there are only intrinsically motivated people who work together to create the funding. Finding them is what is needed to get going.