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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**). 
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 +So, [[the-grid|dig in]]!  
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