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Old 04-27-2007, 05:35 PM
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Default Re: What Are You Optimistic About?

1) renewed kinship networks in the face of crisis - these kinship networks will be both extremely local (knowing your neighbors) and astoundingly global

2) increasing irrelevance of private property in information-space and the rise of altruistic gift economies

3) the death of fundamentalisms - both the fundamentalisms of religion and the fundamentalisms of empiricism and Enlightenment-based egoism

4) re-localization of food and the collapse of industrial monocropping

5) a massive population loss - I'm not optimistic about this happening obviously, it's going to be awful, but if it happens it will be because it is inevitable, and after the inevitable, a possible new paradigm will emerge that recognizes the presence of ecological boundaries and dismisses hubris about humans being above nature as, quite literally, insane

6) The Archaic Revival

7) also, pvn's thoughts, above
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