Future Historians

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**Brainstorming the "NOW"**

Fred: I see live musicians on every street corner as I walk around the city!

Dan: The world is stable and safe, although a lil damp :)

Dickey: We have rescued public education from corporate overlords and put it back into hands of people.

Anna: I am a member of a child caring collective based in a neighborhood, we take care of all kids on the block on a rotating basis. 

Richard: Children are learning on their own nowadays, they work part time, apprentice and participate in all kinds of projects - choices of what they would like to engage in are left to them. 

Alexey: We, the historians, are preparing for a celebration of the jubilee of the first revolution of 1917 and the second revolution of the 21st century, discussing how it became possible.

Lola: In my society, we don’t need to have money as an incentive to do socially useful work, people just like to contribute to their society, they have changed their attitudes. 

Barry: People have learned how to respect each other, particularly those with whom they disagree.

Round II

Anna: I am a part of a small indigenous community who owns collectively its land and each family or individual has her own parcel to cultivate. 

Dicky : Cooperative are the only alternative in my society. 
Dan: There are smaller communities,  like those in the Caribbean - remarkably homogenous, where there is a much better chance to pull off a communist community and bring people to a consensus. Like Montpelier in Vermont, for example!

Lola: As I envisioned in my book, today’s society is without money. People participate just because they want to genuinely contribute and we rely on the fact that we all need each other. I know that i contribute to everyone else’s well being while everyone else contributes to mine. In terms of money as payment for work, as in Richard’s society, I disagree with that model. Effort can be a too subjective criteria for evaluating the appropriate activity. The same task would be of a different degree of difficulty for different people. Our society has prefered to eliminate money entirely. Young people go to school to learn different topics, but they alternate between studying and working and contributing to their society. As for the jobs that no one wants to do - we do them on a rotating basis.

Anna: And my community decided to get rid of “shitty jobs” by producing robots who do them.  

Richard: My society has decided to follow William Morris in resolving the issue of shitty jobs. As he envisioned in News from Nowhere, our dustmen wear fancy Renaissance and Middle Ages costumes and they are honored by everybody. A community nearby has adopted a different approach by following the utopian socialist Fourrier. When he said once in a debate that everybody should be able to do whatever they want, he was challenged that that way there would be no one to pick up garbage. His answer was: “Little boys will do that - they love garbage.’ And it turned out a highly effective method of dealing with garbage and annoying kids indeed. 

So as we can see NOW,  there is room for all kinds of society. All elements that fought capitalism and succeeded in building their own visions of a better world are engaged into the picture.
Future Historians

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