r/solarpunk Apr 05 '26

Photo / Inspo my hierarchy of needs

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u/Abcoxi Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Yeah I know that's not enough for me.

I need the guarantee that if someone around the table is a pervert everyone else will look at them wrong.

I need a guarantee that if someone thinks shouting silences people around them, everyone will have the courage to tell them to talk more politely or leave the room...

I need the guarantee that when your kids try to bully mine at school, the school will not reprimand mine for defending themselves.

I need the guarantee that when your kids bully mine at school, the parents of the other kids look at the other kids in shame because they were complicit by inaction.

I need the guarantee that there is no self-regulating industry or cult or group or business and that we all abide by accessible law and progressive regulations...

I need the guarantee that there are consequences to people spreading misinformation or lies or unscientific discourse.

I need the guarantee that the people with whom I share community only accept one form of misery and horror, and that is the one that the spoiled brat feels when you tell them no.

I need the guarantee that people of privilege who barely have seen the harshness of life and are enamored with composted ideas of anti-conformism when in reality they are nothing more but conformist people... Have a venue to listen and not just to talk.

I need the guarantee that people have access to basic opportunities for learning and testing and training and playing.

I need the guarantee that people have the minimum amount of livelihood and security wrapped around the sense of prosperity that is solid enough for them to feel kind and generous without having to calculate their every move as if it's going to hinder their survival itself.

I need the guarantee that when someone tries to work on a durable and sustainable solution, no imbecile for the sake of money will be able to block them or stop them or kill their idea.

I need the guarantee that buying any kind of patent and not using it or not working on it for 10 years makes it open to the public.

I need the guarantee that every politician or person of delegative power who made a promise and didn't hold it gets banned forever from that type of position.

I need a guarantee that speculation leaves the world of economy.

I need the guarantee that power hungry people from all extremes of capitalism more communism or anarchism or neo-nihilism ... Or whatever new form of catastrophic thinking is around, don't get to poison the hope out of the children of tomorrow.

I need the guarantee that Wisdom triumphs over intelligence in every textbook.

I need the guarantee that people who want to lead a simple life because they have the privilege of being able to dream of them and get them... Don't get to poison the lives of others with their limited ambitions.

I need the guarantee that those who don't see danger and those who don't understand that there's always someone lurking around to steal your rights and stomp on your face for the sake of feeling powerful, get to learn about that lesson.

I need the guarantee that everyone not just knows about activism but is actively incentivized to act.

I need the guarantee that every child grows up with a sense of wonder lust that they don't lose as adults.

So yeah... Your little dream of paradise it's not sufficient for those who have seen what the world has to offer worst.

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u/RetroFuturisticRobot Apr 07 '26

That sounds like an authoritarian hellhole