Blog Post#2

As I reflect on the world and its embedded atrocities, I can identify climate change which is the slow destruction of the one world we have been given, and late-stage capitalism that sustains systematic poverty as mechanisms of horror in our modern framework. In my Earthseed community, my newfound family and I would shelter ourselves from rising carbon levels, and excessive pollution of our land, sea, and air. We would isolate ourselves from the unnecessary slaughter of livestock and the rainforests. Instead, we would concentrate our efforts on living our lives as sustainably as possible. Modeled after the no waste lifestyle of Indigenous peoples who would honor their land, and treat the Earth with the utmost respect as we are all just visitors of this planet. Regarding late-stage capitalism, we would reject corrupt corporations such as big pharma would profit from the sick, we would have free access to education, home-ownership, holistic medical care, and would not be subjected to any time as tyrannical financial system such as the institution of credit. A quote I can be envisioned integrating its meaning into the framework of my imagery of Earthseed is titled Paradise. It follows as “ the child in of us knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was. Or home it should have been. Paradise is one's own place. One’s own people. One’s own world. Knowing and knowing. Perhaps even loving and being loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise into growth and new community, into vast, ongoing change.”  This illustrates revolutionary rhetoric wherewith the expansion of intellect at a micro level can have the power to reform our societal landscape, but change begins with the upbringing of children. To birth a new community and completely dismantle outdated societal practices, it's necessary for an intellectual revolution to eventually intersect the conceptions of the ideals of home and paradise. Similarly, the Earthseed description of the past can also be applied to my imaginative community. It follows, “to survive let the past teach you–past customs struggles, leaders and thinkers. Let these help you. Let them inspire you, warn you, and give you strength. But beware; God is changing. Past is past. What was cannot come again. To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let the past go.” I interpreted this, the world can improve from its painful and corrupt history. Acknowledging the many misgivings and horrors of the past can only aid future leaders and intellects imagine and constructing and better future. Its damaging to erase what once was.. I would form my community somewhere along the coastline where the natural conditions are mild and pleasant, people can enjoy life milestones under the sun. My community has no guidelines for membership; however, to join one must be able to see the beauty in respecting other members and treat them as people passed any gender, identity, race, sexuality, or disability they might have. This social dynamic will encourage tranquility by avoiding all hostility, maliciousness, and violence being present in the community. My leader will be an individual whose primary concern is always the well-being of the entirety of the community, and its sustainability into the distant future. Someone who does not follow the corrupt greed of current political dynamics. A technology that my society will implement will be a small device that tracks your health, and if one falls sick it identifies the sickness and administers treatment. My community will survive through the shared distribution of labor. Everyone will have responsibilities and tasks, and the political model will be a democratic republic therefore there will never be a tyrant or a skewed distribution of power. My Earthseed will offer a better world as every aspect of their lives will be sustainable from the homes they live in, to the clothes they wear, and the food they eat. Overconsumption and excessiveness won’t exist. No one will be enslaved to giant corporations who survive from greed, but rather there will be no such thing as consumer culture and instant gratification in my community.