SolarPunk Aspirations
Foundational Logic
✴️ Symbiotic Commonwealth
🔮 Sustainability Theorems
A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.
Political Theory
Radically Democratic
Economic Theory
Sufficient Flourishing
Cultural Theory
Democracy of Meanings
Ecological Theory
Generational Care
The Life-Affirming Myth: Creating societies where well-being replaces growth.
📑 Observations
Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.
🪞 Self-Enquiry
What would a Radically Democratic system look like in my community, and how would practicing Generational Care shift my understanding of what constitutes Sufficient Flourishing for all?
🩺 Diagnosis Questions
1. Do systems become healthier through use?
2. Does participation increase collective intelligence?
3. Are future generations valued in present decisions?
Related Variables
- Multi-generational planning metrics
- Democratic participation quality indexes
- Regenerative economic indicators
"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny." —Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5
🩻 Targeted Organ
The Collective Imagination
Capacity for Prefigurative Vision
🧾 Rationale
To make the desired future so compelling and tangible that it out-competes the dystopian default.
💉 Extraction/Cultivation
Community storytelling, art, design fictions, and building functional prototypes of the future.
😷 Defense/Propagation
Desire Mapping: Cultivating shared longing for relational wealth over material accumulation.
❌ Tetrad Analysis
- Object of Perception: Progress / The Future
- ENHANCES: Community resilience; qualitative well-being; aesthetic-ecological integration; post-capitalist value
- OBSOLESCES: Infinite growth ideology; brittle infrastructure; dystopian default future
- RETRIEVES: Commons ethos; craft and artisanry augmented with appropriate technology
- REVERSES INTO: Vibrant, desirable simplicity experienced as abundance of time, connection, and purpose
📝 Partial Diagnosis
Generative DNA: Systems designed for radical democracy, sufficient flourishing, and intergenerational care as inherent rights rather than aspirational goals.
⚗️ Research Repository
🔮 Engagement Circle
🧊 Life Course
🎓 Case Study
Transition Towns
Beginning in Totnes, England, Transition Towns demonstrate solarpunk aspirations through grassroots democratic organizing, focus on community resilience and sufficient rather than maximum flourishing, celebration of diverse cultural meanings of prosperity, and explicit care for generational sustainability.
Sources: Transition Network | Post Carbon Institute | Resilience.org Community Studies
📚 Literature
"A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers (2021)
Chambers's novella exemplifies SolarPunk's vision of radically democratic communities that prioritize sufficient flourishing over endless growth, featuring diverse meanings of success and deep care for future generations.
