Stolen from @futurebird - "To create utopias you must first imagine them."

[doomsdayscw@kolektiva.social]

Stolen from @futurebird - "To create utopias you must first imagine them."

(Drawing by Penpanoply)

#ThisIsFine #Cicero #SolarPunkSunday #HopePunk

[ericlawton@kolektiva.social]

@DoomsdaysCW

Looks good to me; I can't imagine how some people think driving a giant SUV at speed on a highway is more Utopian.

@futurebird @Dianora

[doomsdayscw@kolektiva.social]

People driving a giant SUV at speed on a highway sounds pretty Mad Max Dystopian to me, @EricLawton !

@futurebird @Dianora

[clarablackink@writing.exchange]

The: car=freedom idea has been reinforced via advertising.

During the part of 2020 where things had been shut down but some people wanted reopenings, I saw a dramatic increase in car ads that leaned heavily into car means freedom. The cruise companies also advertised like this.

Creative folks need to be re-empowered by the understanding that imagation is a huge source of power in the world. It isn't just entertainment.

@DoomsdaysCW @EricLawton @futurebird @Dianora

[clarablackink@writing.exchange]

There's been a lot of propaganda by a variety of people that has sold art as only entertainment (for self or others). Companies like Disney do it because it makes creative folks more willing to compromise vision for limited profit, folks in other industries promote this idea because it gives them a surplus of creative folks to advertise their products and folks in power do it because they want to limit the understanding of ideas as power.

@DoomsdaysCW @EricLawton @futurebird @Dianora

[ericlawton@kolektiva.social]

@clarablackink

I still read bits of Alice (Wonderland & Looking Glass), and Winnie-thePooh.

They were written for children and adults.

The Disney versions trivialize them.

@DoomsdaysCW @futurebird @Dianora

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@EricLawton I'm sitting in the picture above (only with central heating), reading the stories about Donald Duck (since my childhood).
In Europe, they are published under licence by different publishers and have changed very much. Donald is still the role model of kindness, love, and curiosity, of course still clumsy.
But the topics have much to do with greed, climate, and environment. Even Scrooge has changed: he has to learn that his behaviour

@clarablackink @DoomsdaysCW @futurebird @Dianora

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@EricLawton would ruin the world and that he has to act differently. Best teachers: his nephews.
In the title story above e.g., Scrooge dreams to change every tree into a dollar-growing tree. Only Donald and the nephews see that would destroy nature. They fight, and when the trees of greed nearly destroy Scrooge, he has to learn ...
I don't like Disney as a company - but that's also a Disney product. Made in Europe.

@clarablackink @DoomsdaysCW @futurebird @Dianora

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@NatureMC @EricLawton @clarablackink @DoomsdaysCW @Dianora

Disney like many big companies, could hire some of the best artists and good artists deal in truth instinctively.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@futurebird oh yes. In Europe, especially the Italian and French cartoonists of Donald Duck are legendary ... (I have no idea, if the American version of these books changed like this, we have nearly no American stories included).

@EricLawton @clarablackink @DoomsdaysCW @Dianora