The Years of Repair

The surest recipe for despair is to fall prey to the fallacy of Capitalist Realism: the idea that "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism."

When the world is on fire, sickened, flooding, and on the brink of out-of-control violence and you literally can't imagine any of that changing, it feels like you should just give up.

This is the point of capitalist realism: to make us believe, as Margaret Thatcher liked to say, that "there is no alternative." It's not just a counsel of despair - it's also a statement in opposition to science fiction's core tenet, that alternatives can always be imagined.

Back in 2019, Naomi Klein, Molly Crabapple and AOC collaborated on a stellar short video set in the years AFTER a successful GND transition: "A Message From the Future," narrating back to how we got to a place where we no longer feared the future.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/17/a-message-from-the-future-short-film-about-the-green-new-deal-decade-narrated-by-aoc-drawn-by-molly-crabapple-presented-by-naomi-klein/

Today, Klein has dropped part two in the series: The Years of Repair, once again featuring Crabapple's stop-motion watercolor animations, cocreated with BLM cofounder Opal Tometi and Avi Lewis.

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/01/naomi-klein-message-from-future-covid/

Years of Repair gets closer to our own timeline, describing the transition from our current capitalist crises of disease, incarceration and climate emergencies to a more just world, one devoted to healing and building rather than looting and extracting.

It's hard to overstate what a tonic this is: breaking free of Capitalist Realism and letting your imagination visit a place where, as a species, we recover the best of our practices, the mutual aid and stewardship that built the world in spite of greed and oppression.

Since Dec 4, I've been writing my own post-GND novel, "The Lost Cause," about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias funded by offshore plutes, and visiting that world every day has kept me sane through the plague months.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adoctorow%20%23dailywords%20lost%20cause&src=typed_query&f=live

The idea that we might someday have a generation - the first in more than a century! - that does not fear the future is dizzying to contemplate.

You can read the prologue here, btw:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-decameron-36398964?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare

For years, Kim Stanley Robinson has written a series of audacious novels about a post-climate-emergency humanity, starting with 2012's "2312," set 300 years in the future. Since then, he's come closer and closer to the present day.

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/30/kim-stanley-robinsons-2312-a-novel-that-hints-at-what-we-might-someday-have-and-lose/

Novels like Aurora:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/02/kim-stanley-robinsons-aurora-space-is-bigger-than-you-think/

and New York 2140:

https://memex.craphound.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=my_private_site_tab_public_pages

act as a kind of future-history rangefinding.

Robinson is landing an ever-closer series of volleys that start in the the unknowably distant future, then walk back to the present day, reverse-engineering a path from Capitalist Realism to a utopian leap.

Klein's Messages from the Future are taking a similar path, and the closer they get to our dark moment, the realer (and hence, brighter) the future they paint becomes.

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1. ItaloJohnson – 14A1. ItaloJohnson 2. Xander – Do It. Inmotion 3. CS13 – Mazz Jataz. Uncage 4. Grad U – Dancefloor Is Dangerous. Redscale 5. Grad U – Siren. Redscale 6. ASEC – High Tool (Temudo Remix). ASEC 7. Rene Wise – Hollow. SK Eleven 8. Nicolas Vogler – Thirty. Secession 9. DJ Rush – I Like It Like This (Dub Floor Mix). Kne Deep 10. MASC feat Fast Eddie – Rise Up (Inst). Food Music 11. DJ Bruce Lee – Pussy Bonus Tool. UKR 12. DJ Rush – Let Me Hear You. Rave The Planet 13. Thomas Hostler – Astanavista. Primitive State 14. Rob Strobe – Optimal Power Flow. Motech 15. Humagn – Yaya. Coded Platform 16. Patrick Siech & Sandra Mosh – Square Side. Drumcode LTD 17. DJ Bruce Lee – Groga. UKR 18. Cailín – Sphinx. Gurriers 19. Son Of Philip – Rubber Stamp (Actress Remix). Wigflex 20. Albert Chiovenda – Different Level of Human. EVOD 21. S-File – Distant Land. GND 22. Kareem Smith – Flight Risk. UKR 23. William Arist – Allure (Hemka Remix). Deadcert 24. Mike Storm – One Color (Deniro Remix 2). Symbolism 25. Kr!z – Helix. Unreleased 26. PTTRN – Disappear 3. Token 27. Freak G – Stavro. SQNC 28. Milo Raad – Mood Swings. Unreleased 29. VHS – Espera. Oecus 30. Robert Hood – Shadows. EPM 31. Marcal – Droste Effect. Rekids 32. Inox Traxx – Small Talk. Symbolism 33. Amorphic – A25. Unreleased 34. Mark Broom – The Three Swords. EPM 35. Subradeon – Wisdom. Subradeon 36. Rene Wise & Rødhåd – 190205. WSNWG 37. S-File – Destination Unknown.Unreleased 38. Marcal – Good Things. Rekids 39. Jacobworld – Kroam. Secession 40. Hemka – Culture. Bpitch 41. Deniro – Infrared. DGTL 42. Head Front Panel – Spatial. Repetive Rhythm Research 43. Head Front Panel – Interplay. Repetive Rhythm Research 44. Oliver Rosemann – Chinese Water Torture. Recorded Things 45. Lewis Fautzi – Another Try. Mord 46. A Thousand Details – Red October Hunt. Faut Section 47. Inox Traxx – House of Wax. Symbolism 48. Oscar Mulero – Espectro Rojo. Pole Group 49. Aiken – Justice of Innocents. Key+ 50. Bebhionn – Degenerate Matter. SUB TL 51. Bryan Chapman – The Warrior Child. EPM 52. Head Front Panel – Tonedance. Repetive Rhythm Research 53. NWHR – Teoria 3 . West Rules 54. DJ Surgeles – Donkere Ruimte. Axis 55. James Ruskin – Hang Up. Blueprint 56. Planetary Secrets – Guatemala Dreams. Loose Fit 57. Placid Angles – Beauty Begins With Us (ft. Malibu and Baby Blue). Figure

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Run it Red 75 is here with 2 hours of the best tunes I’ve laid my hands on since the last show. If you’re enjoying the show, and have the means, drop a donation to some worthy charities in the link below. Stay Safe, Sims x

1. ItaloJohnson – 14A1. ItaloJohnson 2. Xander – Do It. Inmotion 3. CS13 – Mazz Jataz. Uncage 4. Grad U – Dancefloor Is Dangerous. Redscale 5. Grad U – Siren. Redscale 6. ASEC – High Tool (Temudo Remix). ASEC 7. Rene Wise – Hollow. SK Eleven 8. Nicolas Vogler – Thirty. Secession 9. DJ Rush – I Like It Like This (Dub Floor Mix). Kne Deep 10. MASC feat Fast Eddie – Rise Up (Inst). Food Music 11. DJ Bruce Lee – Pussy Bonus Tool. UKR 12. DJ Rush – Let Me Hear You. Rave The Planet 13. Thomas Hostler – Astanavista. Primitive State 14. Rob Strobe – Optimal Power Flow. Motech 15. Humagn – Yaya. Coded Platform 16. Patrick Siech & Sandra Mosh – Square Side. Drumcode LTD 17. DJ Bruce Lee – Groga. UKR 18. Cailín – Sphinx. Gurriers 19. Son Of Philip – Rubber Stamp (Actress Remix). Wigflex 20. Albert Chiovenda – Different Level of Human. EVOD 21. S-File – Distant Land. GND 22. Kareem Smith – Flight Risk. UKR 23. William Arist – Allure (Hemka Remix). Deadcert 24. Mike Storm – One Color (Deniro Remix 2). Symbolism 25. Kr!z – Helix. Unreleased 26. PTTRN – Disappear 3. Token 27. Freak G – Stavro. SQNC 28. Milo Raad – Mood Swings. Unreleased 29. VHS – Espera. Oecus 30. Robert Hood – Shadows. EPM 31. Marcal – Droste Effect. Rekids 32. Inox Traxx – Small Talk. Symbolism 33. Amorphic – A25. Unreleased 34. Mark Broom – The Three Swords. EPM 35. Subradeon – Wisdom. Subradeon 36. Rene Wise & Rødhåd – 190205. WSNWG 37. S-File – Destination Unknown.Unreleased 38. Marcal – Good Things. Rekids 39. Jacobworld – Kroam. Secession 40. Hemka – Culture. Bpitch 41. Deniro – Infrared. DGTL 42. Head Front Panel – Spatial. Repetive Rhythm Research 43. Head Front Panel – Interplay. Repetive Rhythm Research 44. Oliver Rosemann – Chinese Water Torture. Recorded Things 45. Lewis Fautzi – Another Try. Mord 46. A Thousand Details – Red October Hunt. Faut Section 47. Inox Traxx – House of Wax. Symbolism 48. Oscar Mulero – Espectro Rojo. Pole Group 49. Aiken – Justice of Innocents. Key+ 50. Bebhionn – Degenerate Matter. SUB TL 51. Bryan Chapman – The Warrior Child. EPM 52. Head Front Panel – Tonedance. Repetive Rhythm Research 53. NWHR – Teoria 3 . West Rules 54. DJ Surgeles – Donkere Ruimte. Axis 55. James Ruskin – Hang Up. Blueprint 56. Planetary Secrets – Guatemala Dreams. Loose Fit 57. Placid Angles – Beauty Begins With Us (ft. Malibu and Baby Blue). Figure

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Enter By the Narrow Ga

Enter Through the Narrow Gate "He passed through towns and villages teaching as he went and making his making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, "Lord will only a few be saved?" He answered them, "Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough." ---------------------------------------------------------- C.S. Lewis pointed out in his book Mere Christianity, false Christians continue to tempt the disciples of Jesus today. Some worship the church, money, power, and materialism instead of God. "Strive to enter through the narrow gate." Discipleship requires conscious effort. It is not enough to notice Jesus as he passes by, or when we fear death, have illness, or in a crisis, one must be willing to sacrifice his or her life. One must be willing to give everything, for providing for everyone in health care, housing, and food, working, simplifying our lives, and to see our environment, and all of life as a part of God's creation to be preserved and taken care of. "Creation for All." Personally this begins with treating each person, as we want to be treated, to see them as a child of God. We hold the hands of people who have done horrible things--from murder, robbery, to child molesters, and so on. We meet them as children of God, one's who have the spark of God within them, but which is simply lying as embers, awaiting renewal. As they are met with justice, we meet them with compassion/mercy as well in the hope that lives may change, and move to live a productive live--be it in prison or outside. Rather than label, condemn, wish them dead, we see them as broken human beings, in need of God's love. And personally we know from experience when we meet people with mercy and love, lives change, our life changes, and our attitude towards life dramatically is filled with peace and love. This is "entering by the narrow gate." We believe the last judgment will be like a great group therapy session, where God will work with us in developing into the loving our neighbor as our selves, and hell will be those who choose not to participate and walk away. Our faith is one of struggle, struggling with our desires of being self centered, and moving into one of love and sharing for all. Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God! On September 20 we invite you to participate in: Bay Area Youth Led Climate Strike Start: Friday, September 20, 2019•10:00 AM Location:San Francisco Federal Building •90 7th Street, San Francisco , CA 94103 Host Contact Info: [email protected] +- (Adult allies are welcome) At 10am, in San Francisco we call for a youth-led climate strike march, going to different targets that are contributing to climate breakdown, leaving our mark to let these places know what we are fighting for. We will again start at the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and will connect targets in government, finance, and energy. For those that can’t join in person, we will be asking people to post on social media and tag our targets. The following are our demands through the action week and why we are striking: 1.We demand a safe, healthy, and just planet.This climate crisis threatens our ability to live. If climate change continues on this course, we won’t be able to eat, breathe, or have safe shelter. In order to successfully fight the climate crisis we are facing, we must also fight the systems of white supremacy, racism, greed, and exploitation that have led us to it. Fighting for climate justice means fighting for a world that is safe, healthy, and just for all of its inhabitants. We must enact climate emergency plans at the local, national, and international level. 2. We demand justice and asylum for people displaced by climate change.Individuals and families displaced by climate change seek asylum in a safe place because they have nowhere else to go. Climate justice means abolishing ICE, closing concentration camps at the border, ending family separation, and creating inclusive new laws and regulations that treat everyone as human. 3. We demand policy based on science. We have eleven years before the effects of the climate emergency are irreversible. We can’t afford to compromise with climate change deniers. We must enact immediate legislation based on scientific analysis of carbon emissions and the ways that climate disasters impact certain communities. Science clearly shows that global temperatures are rising dangerously, and that we are on track to face unprecedented climate disasters. We demand a Green New Deal, a resolution that lays out a science-based plan to reach negative carbon emissions by 2030. 4. We demand that people, not corporations, influence politics.Representation and transparency are vital for successful democracies; corporate money must be taken out of politics. We demand all politicians sign the “No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge.” We demand Citizens United must be overturned and super PAC’s be abolished. Corporate funding and donations from millionaires and billionaires must be replaced with public funding of elections in addition to small-dollar donations. To ensure that every vote counts, we must restore the Voting Rights Act, secure automatic registration for every citizen above 18, and re-enfranchise those convicted of felonies. 5. We demand equal rights for all.The government must be for the people, by the people; all policies and decisions made must be for the benefit of all. Black and trans lives matter; the Equality Act must be passed. The rights of Brown, Black, and Middle Eastern migrants must be respected. Women deserve full reproductive justice, and equity in the workplace. We demand universal background checks and Medicare for All in order to ensure a safe and secure environment for everyone. We demand diversity and representation, and intersectionality must fuel the climate justice movement. Frontline communities must have a voice and leadership role, and we look to indigenous communities to lead the transition to a just and sustainable world. 6. We demand that humans protect the rights of nature.Just as humans have rights, nature has rights. Humans have a moral obligation to respect and protect plants, animals, and ecosystems. We demand that the rights of nature be legally represented. This includes legislation to provide sanctuary for endangered species, regulate hunting, and end deforestation, pollution, destructive fuel extraction, fracking, factory farming, and unsustainable agriculture. All life is interconnected, and we must live in harmony with the Earth. 7. We demand a just transition Countries and individuals that have contributed the most to climate change must be held accountable. We demand urgent climate action, including the GND, that protects vulnerable communities and create economic justice. Policies must respect workers’ rights ’to living wages and health care, young people’s rights to free, relevant education, and everyone’s right to affordable housing. To quote Movement Generation: Transition is inevitable. Justice is not. A just transition is the process of getting from where we are to where we need to be by transforming the systems of economy and governance. A just transition requires moving from a globalized capitalist industrial economy to linked local living participatory economies that provide well-being for all. For more information about the actions you can do through the week please visit our website: youthvsapocalypse.org -------------------------------------------------- Fr. River Damien Sims, sfw, D.Min., D.S.T. P.O. Box 642656 San Francisco, CA 94164 www.temenos.org 415-305-2124 ---------------------------------------------------- We are in need of money for socks and food, our need for socks has increased three fold in the last year, and the Food bank is low on food, so we are having to purchase food at super markets. So please consider to give. Your donations are tax deductible. Give through mailing to P.O. Box 642656 or through Pay pal, which you can find on temenos.org. All checks to be tax deductible must be made to Temenos Catholic Worker. Thank you! ----------------------------------------------------