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| To answer that question, we have decided to perform a thought experiment. Our premise: if there is even one chance in a hundred for a better world — we ought to be able at least to //imagine// it. So we place ourselves in the position of future historians living in the year 2118, in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2018 and reconstruct HOW our great-grandparents got us from THEN — today’s capitalist death-spiral — to NOW: a sustainable, egalitarian global society, free of war, oppression and exploitation. | To answer that question, we have decided to perform a thought experiment. Our premise: if there is even one chance in a hundred for a better world — we ought to be able at least to //imagine// it. So we place ourselves in the position of future historians living in the year 2118, in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2018 and reconstruct HOW our great-grandparents got us from THEN — today’s capitalist death-spiral — to NOW: a sustainable, egalitarian global society, free of war, oppression and exploitation. | ||
| - | Our ongoing Future Historians seminar has been meeting since September 2017. At present we are holding monthly online seminars with participants across a dozen time zones – from California to Moscow — including participants in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Vermont, Paris, and Morocco. | + | For further information, read [[about-us|About Us]]. To begin, read [[To the youth|To the Youth of 2118]]. |
| - | Our goal is to create collectively a popular utopian fiction (working title //Then, Now and How//), in the tradition of Bellamy's //Looking Backward// (1888) and Morris's //News from Nowhere// (1890). The popularity of these utopias brought to life a new socialist movement at the end of the 19th Century. We hope that //Then, Now and How// will also go viral, inspire its readers with hope for the future, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. | ||
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| - | Join us! All power to the imagination! | ||
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| - | For further information, read [[about-us|About Us]]. To begin, read [[To the youth|To the Youth of 2118]].\\ | ||
| For full access to this Wiki or other questions, send email to [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]// | For full access to this Wiki or other questions, send email to [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]// | ||
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