Philosophy
Concentrations of power are naturally corrupted over time. Our world has been obsessed with accumulating and centralizing power for as long as we have record, since the "dawn" of civilization.
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This pattern is in crisis. It is faced with its own false assumptions about happiness and constant growth.
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The challenge of humanity now is to learn how to make space for one another and all life on earth, so that all can thrive in the abundance.
Extracting more will never satisfy us- we must learn to see all energy and matter as sacred, to honor and conserve it all- using every part of every resource, be it buffalo, firewood, scrap metal or compost.
I'm not sure i actually know how Accelerationists think/define themselves + things. I know that I believe in DeGrowth. As for accelerationism, I know what i meant in this section, and i believe it- but i feel misunderstanding is a more likely output of the below composition- so don't give it too much weight. The rest of this page resonates clearly and deeply with me- even if none of this is ever read, I'm glad I wrote it.
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The Vision:
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May you hear and let this future live in your own minds eye, from its own perspective. Know that I do not speak this vision as a leader, asking for allegiance, but as a servant, dedicated to realizing whatever ecological and fulfilling future manifests
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From where we are today we may come together to protect the water, to found healing, learning and protection camps to eliminate the need for oil while we prevent its senseless pollution- moving towards the closing of old unsafe nuclear reactors, dealing finally and cleanly with the wastes, and ensuring the foundation of a wild and wholesome future.
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We may come together on a new open platform to see the big picture of resource extraction and pollution, to connect the movements as never before in an open anonymous crowd:fund, source, and coordination platform, as well as one of expression and connection (well designed to preform all these tasks with minimal noise and distraction)
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We may plan out and implement the best practices of permaculture and all ecologically based harmonious methods
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We may crowdsource the most effective and whole-cycle efficient technologies for all tasks
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Credit: SustainWellBeing.net
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https://syntheticedifice.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/accelerate.pdf
03.8- Manifest, on the future
8. We believe that any post-capitalism will require post-capitalist planning. The faith placed in the idea that, after a revolution, the people will spontaneously constitute a novel socioeconomic system that isn’t simply a return to capitalism is naïve at best, and ignorant at worst. To further this, we must develop both a cognitive map of the existing system and a speculative image of the future economic system.
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Our cultures will meet around a common goal to thrive and will create new communication pathways for ever greater relation.
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Through this relation and direct experience with the land the dispossessed western-cultured will be re-rooted in holy personal connection to connection
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We will develop (i have a skeleton design) an infrastructure that is wholly locally abundant and available as well as clean (non-polluting) and efficient. A solid state electric biomass converter (the pyro-cell biomass gasifier, see "other ventures") is the hot center of the design, the principal of entropy, hot decomposition, is encased wthing the whole living structure- all heat and electricity flows out of this holy sacrifice of grown biomass to human ends. Some of the hydrogen produced in this process is pumped into a balloon that suspends an antennae into the air that uses some of the electricity produced to "beam" (it's actually more like "radiate") together a mesh internet between all such communities globally.
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This whole infrastructure could be built into something like a yurt or a Tipi- and even made to pack up and travel. Certainly it coul be built onto a raft or into a ship.
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Possibly with some stationary permanent foundry stations within each "Clan", or "school" or "church" or whatever collective group of humans that finds one another and learns to relate and cooperate intimately. (and then externally, with the world on its global watershed congress)
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That can't be planned, but what we can do is pioneer that infrastructure around the impetus to build climate action camps across the land.
Arbor's Personal Philosophy
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The core of my personal ethic is eco-centrism; this is the lens i try to make all my decisions through (though I am admittedly slack on the small stuff, in this difficult world)
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For me this me-ans a spirituality of Deep Ecology, honoring the earth and remembering my ancestors and my karma (in a deep compassionate sense)
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I learned the patterns of growth and collapse from ecology, from bacteria right on up you see the same stories if you look long enough in enough different places. Concetrated power breeds parisitism, and if the cancer can't find equilibrium with the host, it dies (and the host may as well! Or maybe just a wicked fever).
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We have an opportunity to abandon ship before it sinks- maybe even to build a lighthouse, or at least some rafts.
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I have come to see the mission of all life to catch and hold as much water and energy as possible in support of future generations. Western design is decidedly backward- death centered in fact- in the service of entropy, using up long-chain complex ancient fossilized chemicals at breakneck and ever-accelerating speeds.
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The vision i see of the counter needed is a global digital confederacy of all communities, peacefully co-operating to protect the water and the earth as well as to build ecological living systems- fully self-sufficient up to the levels of global travel and communication, and locally food sovreign (with fair sustainable trade systems for gifts, spices and ​specialties.
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The beauty of shifting thought from the Mass Global Market to designs of decentralized alternatives is that- unlike oil or nuclear- renewable energy is a decentralized source. There is a little everywhere, and it is the struggle of the Renewable Market in the Mass Global System to collect and centralize enough of it somewhere (in a dam, or a wind farm, or on a manufacture level a huge PV factory) to make a viable business model.
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If, instead of thinking about profit, we learn to see ourselves as active participants in the relations of our local ecology in its mission to catch as much sun as efficiently as possible- then all the complicated conflicts of dealing in the systems we are presented with dissolve. We return to the real system. The Big Story is the Grass, the Field and the Forest.