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-**The “novel where you are the hero”**+===== The Novel Where You Are the Hero =====
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 Some other individuals got together in order to make these visions of possible Utopias more accessible and more popular. Among them manga artists, sci-fi writers, computer-freaks,​ creators of computer games. They talked about many things in a forum on the Web called “Utopias Unlimited.” To make their scenarios as realistic as possible, they tried acting out the roles of the various antagonists : some had fun playing the part of the capitalists while others played the revolutionaries,​ then they switched roles. They tried to make the capitalists as clever as possible to put their scenarios to the test. Like players in a role-game. Some other individuals got together in order to make these visions of possible Utopias more accessible and more popular. Among them manga artists, sci-fi writers, computer-freaks,​ creators of computer games. They talked about many things in a forum on the Web called “Utopias Unlimited.” To make their scenarios as realistic as possible, they tried acting out the roles of the various antagonists : some had fun playing the part of the capitalists while others played the revolutionaries,​ then they switched roles. They tried to make the capitalists as clever as possible to put their scenarios to the test. Like players in a role-game.
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 Popular “Sci-Fi” utopian fictions about livable, sustainable,​ egalitarian and democratic future societies were proliferating in graphic novels, TV series and films, providing concrete images of a better world worth fighting for. A number of veteran Marxists, anarchists and other radicals on three continents formed an "​international study group and collective writing project"​ produced one such novel, "Then and Now," comparing the world of capitalism'​s death-spiral with the better world of the future. Their idea was to pretend to be future historians "​looking backwards"​ from a thriving 22nd century ecotopian world, and try to explain, based on realistic social, historical evidence, how the planet got to this happy solution from the catastrophic world of the early 21st century. Their graphic novel, "​Mutiny on Starship Earth" challenged the accepted Anthropocene theories that technology, which had created the problem of climate catastrophe,​ could solve it – even under capitalism. This myth of a '​techno-fix'​ was convenient for carbon-invested capitalists,​ who could then continue profiting from their oil and coal, and it also seduced self-described Leftists who were unable to envision the emergence of self-organized masses of humans capable of overwhelming the destructive,​ dying world system, and bringing forth a better world based on cooperation and sustainablity. Popular “Sci-Fi” utopian fictions about livable, sustainable,​ egalitarian and democratic future societies were proliferating in graphic novels, TV series and films, providing concrete images of a better world worth fighting for. A number of veteran Marxists, anarchists and other radicals on three continents formed an "​international study group and collective writing project"​ produced one such novel, "Then and Now," comparing the world of capitalism'​s death-spiral with the better world of the future. Their idea was to pretend to be future historians "​looking backwards"​ from a thriving 22nd century ecotopian world, and try to explain, based on realistic social, historical evidence, how the planet got to this happy solution from the catastrophic world of the early 21st century. Their graphic novel, "​Mutiny on Starship Earth" challenged the accepted Anthropocene theories that technology, which had created the problem of climate catastrophe,​ could solve it – even under capitalism. This myth of a '​techno-fix'​ was convenient for carbon-invested capitalists,​ who could then continue profiting from their oil and coal, and it also seduced self-described Leftists who were unable to envision the emergence of self-organized masses of humans capable of overwhelming the destructive,​ dying world system, and bringing forth a better world based on cooperation and sustainablity.
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