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| ====== Then and Now ====== | ====== Then and Now ====== | ||
| - | //Note by Richard Greeman// (Nov 6 update) | + | //Note by Richard Greeman//\\ |
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| In our weekly international online Future Historians seminars we pretend that we're historians putting together a centennial history book for the teenagers of 2117. We are constructing utopias, if you will, but we are also explaining how we got here (a peaceful, cooperative world society in 2117) from there (the catastrophes of 2017). We're a group from a wide variety of backgrounds, spread out from L.A. to Moscow, including a subway track worker, some students, a businessman, a few academics and various old radicals like me. Unlike so many Leftists, we don't argue or denounce each other, although we have many differing viewpoints. For this simple reason: viewed from 2117 we see the complimentarity of the different roads leading to the Emergence of the new society from the shell of the old (for example ‘reform’ and ‘revolution’). | In our weekly international online Future Historians seminars we pretend that we're historians putting together a centennial history book for the teenagers of 2117. We are constructing utopias, if you will, but we are also explaining how we got here (a peaceful, cooperative world society in 2117) from there (the catastrophes of 2017). We're a group from a wide variety of backgrounds, spread out from L.A. to Moscow, including a subway track worker, some students, a businessman, a few academics and various old radicals like me. Unlike so many Leftists, we don't argue or denounce each other, although we have many differing viewpoints. For this simple reason: viewed from 2117 we see the complimentarity of the different roads leading to the Emergence of the new society from the shell of the old (for example ‘reform’ and ‘revolution’). | ||
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| Under the heading "HOW?" we describe the processes of planetary emergence, the roads that lead from THEN (2017) to NOW (2117). Much of the material in "Histories of Revolutionary Emergence" can be recycled into the HOW? category and spread out over various different Topics, like "Energy" for example. | Under the heading "HOW?" we describe the processes of planetary emergence, the roads that lead from THEN (2017) to NOW (2117). Much of the material in "Histories of Revolutionary Emergence" can be recycled into the HOW? category and spread out over various different Topics, like "Energy" for example. | ||
| - | We also aim to cut up the "Histories of Revolutionary Emergence" narratives (including "Billions VS Billionnaires" the Computer Game that Saved the World) for putting some of the content into the relevant Topics (e.g., BvB would go under “Internet”) and developing some new Topics on the basis of episodes in the Histories (for example on Corruption, Drugs, Prisons and Crime). | + | We also aim to cut up the "Histories of Revolutionary Emergence" narratives (including "Billions VS Billionnaires" the Computer Game that Saved the World) for putting some of the content into the relevant Topics (e.g., BvB would go under “Internet”) and developing some new Topics on the basis of episodes in the Histories (for example on Corruption, Drugs, Prisons and Crime). |
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| - | We are accepting volunteers to join Topic Teams and take charge of lining up source readings for each Topic in advance of our meetings. Please go to [[topic-teams|TOPIC TEAMS]] and sign on. | + | |
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