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==== How to Use This History ==== | ==== How to Use This History ==== | ||
- | //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. | + | //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** (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. | 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. | ||
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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]]! |