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| - | ===== To the Youth of 2117 ===== | + | ===== To the Youth of 2118 ===== |
| As we look back on the past century, we have much to be satisfied with. Today our planet is slowly returning to health. Humans have adjusted to a more extreme and chaotic climate. We have achieved a sustainable exchange with the rest of nature, we eat, we live in relative safety, we (mostly) get along with each other. In the process of restoring the environment, we have learned to cooperate and live together peacefully, respecting other people, other species, other orders. There is a rough equality among us across the planet. No one piles up riches and no one starves. | As we look back on the past century, we have much to be satisfied with. Today our planet is slowly returning to health. Humans have adjusted to a more extreme and chaotic climate. We have achieved a sustainable exchange with the rest of nature, we eat, we live in relative safety, we (mostly) get along with each other. In the process of restoring the environment, we have learned to cooperate and live together peacefully, respecting other people, other species, other orders. There is a rough equality among us across the planet. No one piles up riches and no one starves. | ||
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| ==== How to Use Your Textbook ==== | ==== How to Use Your Textbook ==== | ||
| - | Your textbook //Then, Now and How// is not a linear or monolithic narrative. Rather, it is in the form of an encyclopedia – a grid or patchwork that can be read horizontally, vertically, or at random. One dimension of the grid is chronological: **Then** (2017), **Now** (2117) and **How** (the decades of struggle between). The other is topical. The dozen or so topics present the major problems facing humanity in 2017. | + | Your textbook //Then, Now and How// is not a linear or monolithic narrative. Rather, it is in the form of a [[the-grid|grid]] or patchwork that can be read horizontally, vertically, or at random. |
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| + | One dimension of the grid is chronological: **Then** (2017), **Now** (2117) and **How** (the decades of struggle between). The other is topical. The dozen or so topics present the major problems facing humanity in 2017. | ||
| Read vertically, **Then** presents a history of capitalism's final phase which was engendering ecological catastrophes, increasing economic inequalities, endemic wars and civil wars, and every form of retrogression to more primitive forms of society, including the revival of slavery, debt peonage, mass unemployment, obscene waste and luxury, tyrannical governments, loss of political freedoms, degradation of intellectual life, religious obscurantism, and oppression and dehumanization of women, racial minorities, generating millions upon millions of refugees fleeing ecological catastrophes, wars, and political tyranny. | Read vertically, **Then** presents a history of capitalism's final phase which was engendering ecological catastrophes, increasing economic inequalities, endemic wars and civil wars, and every form of retrogression to more primitive forms of society, including the revival of slavery, debt peonage, mass unemployment, obscene waste and luxury, tyrannical governments, loss of political freedoms, degradation of intellectual life, religious obscurantism, and oppression and dehumanization of women, racial minorities, generating millions upon millions of refugees fleeing ecological catastrophes, wars, and political tyranny. | ||
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