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The word for Mar 21 is #Utopia

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Donald Fagen - I.G.Y. There was a moment when the future was going to be nearly that bright... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di0_KYtmVKI

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Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #utopia
Song: [Nothing But] Flowers
By: Talking Heads
Link: https://youtu.be/2twY8YQYDBE

Once there were parking lots
Now it's a peaceful oasis
You've got it, you've got it
This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
You've got it, you've got it
I miss the honky tonks
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
You've got it, you've got it
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention

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Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #utopia
Song: Perfect Day
By: Lou Reed
Link: https://youtu.be/9wxI4KK9ZYo

The perfect, utopian day in song.

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#utopia

n a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island

n a work of fiction describing a utopia

n an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal

n ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ

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The word is “Utopia”.

Hashtag: #FortnightFridayMusic
Host: @bborn @MarkIngs
Subject: #Utopia
Selection: The Miracle
By: Queen
Submitted by: @dgar
Song Link: https://youtu.be/2DaY8-Mui0I
Context: https://mindly.social/@bborn/114197612817932494

Such a great music video!

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Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #utopia
Song: Opposite Day
By: #TISM
Link: https://youtu.be/EZg9DCunHEk

Husbands sat in discrete cafes
And flirted with their wives
"I'll give you head," all girlfriends said
"Don't worry," said the guys
...
The teachers' faces paled
They wouldn't have been in trouble
With a cop from New South Wales
"I'm taking you back home right now
Don't dare not call me pig
And you can explain why you were caught
Drug-free to your kids"

Painting of the Day. Village
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#AfricanArt #Africa #utopia #paintingoftheday

#China's city of the #future: #utopia or #dystopia? #shenzhen #yt

https://youtu.be/VItBlmlWE4U

Way ahead of you, #Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/12/el-salvador-bitcoin-city-mangroves-president-nayib-bukele My take from 2022 here https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/environmental-paradise-or-dystopian-debacle-promise-and-peril-of-futuristic-island-communities-commentary/ #mangroves #climatecrisis #Climate #bitcoin #seasteading #bukele #COVID #garifuna #utopia

Capitalism thrives off of exploitation.

All visions, dreams, and healthy utopias conjured up by humans are centered around ending all kinds of exploitation while satisfying human curiosity and comfort.

Hence capitalism is directly opposed to any tangible progress of our species, our habitats, and the planet we live on.

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The word for Mar 14 is "Forever"

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Mar 28 #Gather
Apr 11 #Horrible

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Upcoming biweekly words are:
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This may be the most important, revealing article, from Mike Brock, that you will come across in 2025. Click link to the blog with audio version, thanks to ListenLater

#democracy, #libertarian, #fascism, #musk, #peterthiel, #siliconvalley, #technology, #utopia #mikebrock
https://neurodoctor.com/2025/03/08/the-plot-against-america/

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The word for Feb 21 is "Void"

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*A lecture on Degrowth Utopianism*

Yesterday was session 3 of our #Degrowth and Socioecological Justice course at the University of Copenhagen, co-organized by Rebecca Rutt and @FerRacimo . This time, the course featured Assoc. Prof. Mikkel Krause Frantzen from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and Jeppe Sørensen as representative of Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse (The Green Youth Movement) and the ecological publishing house Økotopia.

They hosted a great session on "Degrowth Utopianism", opening up a space to critically think about how to work towards utopias in the here and now. We wrote our own visions of #utopia in a futuring exercise, and delved into many sci-fi works. The lecture was centered around discussion of the article “Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth” by Kallis and March, as well as Ursula Le Guin’s essay “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be” ( https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.edu/dist/9/20/files/2019/07/1989a_Le-Guin_non-Euclidean-view-California.pdf ), with its famous quote: “It seems that the utopian imagination is trapped, like capitalism and industrialism and the human population, in a one-way future consisting only of growth. All I’m trying to do is figure out how to put a pig on the tracks.”

Thanks to both Mikkel and Jeppe for an engaging and mind-opening session!

A quotation from Zinn

   An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
   And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) American historian, academic, author, social activist
Essay (2004-09-02), “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/zinn-howard/35668/

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The word for Feb 28 is "Elevate"

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