vegafjord

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[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 9 points 20 hours ago

There's nothing wrong with that flag from what I am aware.

The flag I made is primarily intended for showing my political stances, but it fits under the the solar punk tradition as well, which is why I call it a solarpunk flag. It's also an anarchist flag, a humanism flag, ecological flag, and feminist flag.

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 1 points 20 hours ago

I like to think that indigenous communities is to a larger or lesser extent anarchist. Perhaps by looking into everyday stories of these communities, you can get some inspiration as to what kinds of journeys are appealing to them. I haven't done this myself, but at least that's what I would do if I were you.

 

The flag symbolizes the core beliefs necessary for bringing about healing of Gaja according to the oakframe. The five symbols are withermight, bloom, samlife, samhold and humanity.

Withermight is to view might as that which prevents us from healing. It is therefore necessary to strife against it. It is symbolized with the color black.

Bloom is to view ourselves as beings of growth. To be our authentic selves and to let ourselves grow. To strive for blossoming. Symbolized with the color purple.

Samlife is to live with, not against. To live with nature, like the bumblebee. To create mutually beneficial systems between nature and humans. Symbolized with green.

The symbols in white comes from the chinese letter 人 which means human.

Humanity is to ground ourselves in humanity rather than might. To not let us be tricked into looking at the world through states, nations and economies, but rather look to the human perspective. It is symbolized with the letter 人.

Samhold is to bind ourselves to our peers. To weave a web of leaderless structure that can replace might. To aid our peers in the face of violence. Symbolized with 人人.

Note that 人人 does not mean samhold in chinese.

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago

rest in force Gerard Winstanley!

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 1 points 22 hours ago

NOTE I don't mean to superficially criticize, but I'm just very aware of how we elect our words. I haven't looked into the article itself yet, so this is not to criticize the content of the post.

The word repair is a word that we should avoid when it comes to talking about turning our planet well again. Repair turns Gaja into an unliving machine, similar to a car or a washing machine. Repair is a word we use for unliving things, but Gaja is living.

We should instead dream of a world healed. By doing this, we transform our understanding of Gaja. As a being that needs to be taken care of instead of as something that is used to our benefit.

By looking at Gaja as a living being, we also challenge our conception of improving our world. Because we are taught to look at bringing forth positive change as finding solutions. But solutions are what we do in engineer work. The doctor doesn't talk about their patients as problems to be solved, but rather patients to be healed, or unwellnesses to be healed.

In other words we need to go away from an engineer mindset towards a doctor mindset. Working with the living instead of machines. To relight away from problem solving towards unwellness healing.

The engineer mindset makes us see the world superficially without requiring to take the totality of the body in mind.

The doctor mindset on the other side makes us see the world wholistically and taking everything into account.

Using engineer mindset tells us that we need engineers to improve our world, whereas using the doctor mindset tells us that we need healers to heal the world. This will channel people into becoming healers instead of engineers.