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| - | ==== How to Use Your Textbook ==== | + | ==== How to Use This History ==== |
| - | Your textbook //Then, Now and How// is not a linear or monolithic narrative. Rather, it is in the form of a [[the-grid|grid]] or patchwork that can be read horizontally, vertically, or at random. | + | //Then, Now, and How// is not a linear or monolithic narrative. The [[the-grid|Index/Contents page]] is in the form of a grid or patchwork that can be read horizontally, vertically, or at random. So you can let curiosity be your guide, and create your own narrative. |
| - | One dimension of the grid is chronological: **Then** (2017), **Now** (2117) and **How** (the decades of struggle between). The other is topical. The dozen or so topics present the major problems facing humanity in 2017. | + | One dimension of the grid is chronological: **Then** (2018), **Now** (2118) and **How** (the decades of struggle between). The other is topical. The dozen or so topics present the major problems facing humanity in 2018. |
| Read vertically, **Then** presents a history of capitalism's final phase which was engendering ecological catastrophes, increasing economic inequalities, endemic wars and civil wars, and every form of retrogression to more primitive forms of society, including the revival of slavery, debt peonage, mass unemployment, obscene waste and luxury, tyrannical governments, loss of political freedoms, degradation of intellectual life, religious obscurantism, and oppression and dehumanization of women, racial minorities, generating millions upon millions of refugees fleeing ecological catastrophes, wars, and political tyranny. | Read vertically, **Then** presents a history of capitalism's final phase which was engendering ecological catastrophes, increasing economic inequalities, endemic wars and civil wars, and every form of retrogression to more primitive forms of society, including the revival of slavery, debt peonage, mass unemployment, obscene waste and luxury, tyrannical governments, loss of political freedoms, degradation of intellectual life, religious obscurantism, and oppression and dehumanization of women, racial minorities, generating millions upon millions of refugees fleeing ecological catastrophes, wars, and political tyranny. | ||
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| Thus, read vertically, //Then, Now and How// presents an authoritative picture of the non-viability of high-tech, financialized capitalist civilization (**Then**); the viability and sustainability of our present democratic and egalitarian societies based on solar power, agroecology, and self-organization (**Now**); and the roads that led from the death throes of capitalism to the emergence of caring and sharing societies through the convergence of intersectional and international social movements (**How**). | Thus, read vertically, //Then, Now and How// presents an authoritative picture of the non-viability of high-tech, financialized capitalist civilization (**Then**); the viability and sustainability of our present democratic and egalitarian societies based on solar power, agroecology, and self-organization (**Now**); and the roads that led from the death throes of capitalism to the emergence of caring and sharing societies through the convergence of intersectional and international social movements (**How**). | ||
| - | Reading horizontally, we present a series of critical problems that plagued humans living under a decaying capitalist order in the early 21st century (**Then**) and sketch out the ways in which they were resolved and transcended (**How**), arriving at today's early-22nd-century democratic, egalitarian and just societies (**Now**). | + | Reading horizontally, we present a series of critical problems that plagued humans living under a decaying capitalist order in the early 21st century (**Then**) and sketch out the ways in which they were resolved and transcended (**How**), arriving at today's early-22nd-century democratic, egalitarian and just societies (**Now**). So [[the-grid|dig in]]! |
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