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thisismenow3 · 7 months

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Solar Punk denouement

I wanted to talk about the details but Ty wouldn’t listen. My longest friend, dude who would hear me out no matter how far a part we were on something, but not this. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Everyone wants to forget the lost centuries. Ty was at least sympathetic

“The sun shines as bright as it ever did and the states are soaking in it! Things are good enough now but there’s still lots of hard work to do, nobody wants to be told a tragedy with no moral for them to follow. Why just feel bad? I’m just telling it to ya nice, man.”

Ty always acted like I needed a translator for everybody. He was right. But was he 100 on this? Nah, fuck that.

“What ya mean no moral? There’s so much to learn from that time that is about what we struggle with now!” Jay moaned. Instead of anger a pleading came through in their voice.

“People don’t care how we got here other than what they already believe. The environment is way better now, we live way better now. There’s nothing from back then that doesn’t just remind people of the zealot bandits or the fail states. And does it teach us how to deal with them or our own differences here?” He ended with a look that should’ve annoyed them more. But Jay got the point.

“Maybe.” Jay said this defiantly, but quickly felt the annoyance slip. A new emotion took its place as they started to veer off the path Ty was on. “Well, good. Tell me somethin when you find that yes, otherwise, deuce” Ty and Jay shot each other the age old sign at this. Jay kept an eye on him for a sec as he meandered over to the housing towers closest to the reservoir. He’d have his hands full today on overlapping holidays as CS in this ward. Ty always knew what to say to people though. If they weren’t acting too stupid.

“Even then, ha” Jay whispered as they changed focus on what lay ahead. Their Lost Centuries Historiography professor wanted them to meet on a hill overlooking the newest housing tower build site. Jay was too sly to believe it was an off day like the professor claimed. Those were the best days for learning. Glint from solar cells on a nearby tower caused their eyes to tear, as Jay got close to the meeting spot. The ‘maybe’ still rung in Jay’s head. The excitement of finding the connecting threads was mounting. There’s always something you can use now from history.

#Decided I’d be more likely to work on this story if I posted something to here #The idea is to imagine a future where things have gotten a lot better on the environmentalism front and other fronts #Inspired by andrewism a love of history and some of the apocalypse episodes of adventure time #Cause apocalypse should be avoided #And maybe if we can see how good things could be we can have hope to work our way there now #Cause things have to improve on a variety of fronts for humanity to make it #So what if the dam breaks? Metaphorically speaking #Well democracy of some form often goes centuries from popping back up in a significant way when it is shut down #So what if we learn about the worst while seeing how a fictional solar punk setting made it through?

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