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Solar Punk is just another version of the Nordic model (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wait, I'm confused. Why, again, is an empty area in an image of a town fascist? I agree that cities are populated, but I guess I've looked at too many architectural drawings to ever notice that aspect of solar punk images.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Solar-punk feels like of like an inversion of socialist realism to me. Socialist realism celebrates the worker as creator with muscles straining, tools in hand, actively building the world. Labor is heroic, collective, and visibly transformative. The aesthetic screams: WE made this. On the other hand, solar-punk envisions society after the work is done with comfortable citizens enjoying green tech built by unseen hands. The aesthetic whispers: Look what grew while no one was laboring.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I can see that now, thanks