Hi Andrewism. Given the desire for sustainability and ecology, what are your thoughts on veganism?

A culture of fearless trust and intimacy - I pray that the generations to come grow up knowing buen vivir. Thank you for sharing.

How do you spell that "g" word you kept using. "What's missing from the conversation?" Tree houses. 😂 Hopefully starting a yt channel this year on the construction of my tree house. Plus alternative building techniques, bamboo, and more.

​@@LeFlamel Was this prompted by the OCC (Our Changing Climate) video? if not, they did upload a video on that very topic a couple days ago, I'd recommend you give it a look - they focus precisely on the sustainability aspect of it.

@@hcxpl1 vaguely, though I disagree with the video. There's no point of discussing sustainability without being vegan, at least until lab meat can scale. S the vegan question litmus test of how dedicated to sustainability people are, IMO.

Remember the Sword of Damocles is a bar fr. I know the feeling. I touch on it in my Maslow video, but I think part of what feeds into that insecurity besides the economic system is the lack of social/community support. A lot of folks don't have that safety net to fall back on.

@@Andrewism I do a lot of voluntary work with homeless people and I heard a great many stories of how people ended up where they are now. And almost always it's not a chronic process of getting worse and worse but a sudden event in life, some kind of a crisis (like loosing a job and having some health issue at the same time) which normally wouldn't be life-wrecking unless you don't have a safety net to help you go through this crisis. In most cases this safety net would be some family or maybe close friends. But some people don't have them. Seeing how easy it is to prevent someone from becoming homeless and how hard it is to reverse the process I often think of how much there needs to be some sort of systemic safety net for people experiencing crisises of all kinds.

​@@Andrewismit's not just lack of community though, it's complete detachment from our basic needs. Everything is provided for me and sold back to me, from water, to food, to shelter, to energy. Even our social interactions are beginning to be packaged and sold. I'm relatively well off, but I'm utterly reliant on the system for all my needs, and it's frightening. Frightening because I've turned off all those human traits and understandings that are innate in providing my needs. The system does all that for us you see! Until it doesn't. Which is where I believe we're headed, and I'm most certainly not immune.

@@ricos1497 That "detachment" is alienation at its finest. That's how the system is setup, I discuss it in my Illuminati video if you haven't seen it already!

@@jantonimikulski1569 Love what you're saying here. I think it's on point. @ricos1497, too.

Indeed. But how do we practically get our communities to re-orient towards a "Library Economy, Solarpunk Society?" What options are there for us? There are many, many great ideas and books, like Andrewism, Srsly Wrong Boys, Revolution Now, Our Changing Climate, Second Thought, to books Less is More (Jason Hickel), No Place Like Home: Building Sustainable Communities (Marcia Nozick) and The New Human Rights Movement (Peter Joseph), but we need that structural link. And where is it? One Small Town is the only one I'm aware of. Any others?

We are in Late Stage Capitalism, and it is ugly. For a lot of reasons, generations prior did not listen to the warnings and re-structure society, even though great minds like Jacque Fresco, R. Buckminster Fuller, Carl Sagan, Donella Meadows, David Graeber, Murray Bookchin, and so many more gave clear insight into the problems of the current system and the better system we could create. It just never got done. But now, it is unavoidable. We must change systems or we'll continue to suffer the faster decline. So, it becomes pretty clear! It is simply the only rational choice but to try and change our system, community by community, but linking with other like-minds internationally to support each other. The disappointing part is that if you really, truly look around, there is hardly any organizations and movements truly offering realistic system change support that can be adapted to each community but scaled up all across the world. Despite good intentions, the ideas and strategies of Library Economies isn't enough, there isn't a organization that really has the tools to give everybody in every community a realistic way to build the Library of Things up to what it could be if it can't bring in consistent money. Yes, sadly, we need money in this system to get out of a capitalist society. So, that's why all that I'm aware of as options currently is the One Small Town initiative based on Ubuntu Contributionism. Their philosophy: "Using the tools of enslavement as tools of liberation" is a smart strategy. Instead of trying to force political action all year round, which can be exhausting and defeating, OST provides much more immediate local relief as well as education and connection. That builds the foundation for a better society and a political awakening.

Your comment is so true! I wonder, how is life for you 8 months later?

I hope you are well

i'm really glad to hear! thank you for your kind words

I just listened to fiddler on the roof for the first time and was incredibly emotionally moved by the song "If I were a rich man" where he talks about what was important to him. It was beautiful. It really did sound like buen vivir. I carefully listened to the lyrics and found it very powerful. I had no idea. He wanted safe housing, community, a healthy wife, respect. It wasn't what I expected. Somehow I got it into my head that it was a comedy. But it was so deep and moving. I see why it's remained so popular over the years.

Real

It is bad.

Omg I smoked like 10 mins ago. Twinning

Same, but combine it with a binge of Lancer lore right beforehand. It's a nice little time sandwich, that.

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you active in NE organizing? - another random dude in NE

Im a New Englander too. Solidarity forever, comrade🫡🚩🏴

Thank you so much!

Glad you like them!

I couldn't have said that any better. I'm in complete agreement with @crwper's response.

I think that line was either from or inspired by Elise Reclus

Answering the question of Andrew now, for me a good life is found in the simple things: drinking your tea in the morning while looking at your vegetable garden, going for a walk with friends, reading a book, taking a walk in Nature (I really like forest walks), climbing on a high spot at night to watch the stars etc. Every summer I visit my grandparents who live in a small island. Their house is in a rather isolated and very sparsely populated place, surrounded in all sides by open fields and small hills. Honestly my favorite past time when I visit, is to climb on top of an old stone water tank and watch the stars at night, or read a book, or just let the wind caress my face while I look at the fields and the blue sea around me. I feel peace in those moments, like everything is fine and the world is good. I wouldn’t change that for all the high-paying jobs in the world.

I hope you're doing the same Andrew!

Good for you sir!

@@Thepissheadman ma'am, and thank you! :)

Why limit your aspiration of a good life within capitalism? Why can’t we aspire something better than it?

@@antoruby We want that too

@@antoruby thats exactly what i want. but to get that a lot of change needs to happen. and in the meantime i want to live a life as close to what i dream of as possible

Depends on the person. I’m a person who deeply values my own space and being left alone by others. I am unlikely to become involved in community efforts by being in the middle of things. But, I would still benefit immensely from those who really want to put in all that effort. The key might be to find peripheral, intermittent options for those individuals who can only commit briefly. With enough discrete packages of involvement strung together, along with those who enjoy the feeling of pitching in and getting their hands dirty in work parties, communal larger projects can emerge. The discrete packages also help include carers, disabled, elderly, children and those who are already weighed down with overwork or lack of resources. Find people who have the energy to coordinate those many short interludes of effort. Maybe the individualists can also be approached as backers/funders. This has an unfortunate association with philanthropy, where philanthropists make personal choices over who is worthy enough for their money. Philanthropists should be encouraged to pass over their funds to community banks so that the community itself can decide what’s important. In the case of the ant and the grasshopper, the grasshopper does have a unique selling point: his music. Even if it looks like the ants are doing all the work, the grasshopper can bring them music to make life feel better.

Taken into bankers accounts, not monarchs. Monarchs lost the war against bankers and their power over a century back.

Yeah I’m terrified tbh, I understand why many artist are completely against it but unfortunately it doesn’t look like the train will be slowing down.

No problem!

i've got a book in progress that may be of interest :) i also used to talk about these topics on my old medium blog as well as on a secret tiktok, and i hope to return to that more regional work in the future.

@@Andrewism Bet! I look forward to it. Its always great to hear from regional voices. Keep up de good work!

@@Andrewism FWIW, I for one (as a random not-in-that-geography viewer) would welcome content that's specific to there. I'm sure there'd be useful parallels to something or other.

In this context, yang also represents what we do, while yin represents what we don't do. We learn that doing more, taking more, achieving more is 'virtuous' - but wisdom is in knowing when (and how) to be still, to leave alone, to give back. A nice allegory for this is the table - a table that is all substance will reach the ceiling, serving no purpose: the value in a table is in its surface - where it ends, where it is not. So we see that being more is not being better. The yang (what you do) determines your substance, while the yin (what you don't do) determines the shape of your character and your value to those around you. Both are necessary but they must be in balance.

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Not that i write this as an advocate for what you call "isms" but is there not a logical problem with your premise. Is there a ",problem" if "we" are the problem. And when you say "we" do you really mean all or do you mean some. Identifying "the problem" with an inherently subjective experience seems impossible or even futile. What is good for one can never be good for all. The simple idea that something , particularly an ideology or way of living is good for all seems flawed. It seems more reasonable that we try, different things , different experiences and reflect study, change our minds. There are certain things that believe in , i would certainly never try to persuade another of my beliefs. But it does take those who would to push the needle. In each and every moment they simultaneously risk disaster or greatness, depending on how one looks at it.

and advertising should be illegal. i keep telling people this and they laugh. they can't even imagine not being sold to

Why?

Is it because it is written in Spanish?

You think not everyone is allowed to live buen vivir?

@@aphilosophicalnaturalist6245 yeah

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c Andrewism described it as an indigenous philosophy, but the name isn't in an indigenous language. The dark irony