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   Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 01:21:56 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

   Golden ages for different themes exist in parallel of other bleak and dark ages. While we might see a lot of bleak grim ages, what golden ages are happening right now?

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     matthias (schnellkurs@troet.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 01:53:35 JST matthias

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     @woodbark Maybe the golden age of cannabis if the legalisation becames a success.

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 05:34:13 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @souvlaki in accumulated distance you might be right, but in totality the 1830s-50s were (in europe) a higher moment of mobility.

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     268daysofrain (souvlaki@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 05:34:16 JST 268daysofrain

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     @woodbark Travel. Mobility. People have never moved around as much as we do today.

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 06:01:52 JST simsa03

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     A still continuing period of empowerment of teenage and twen voices. Not war nor reactionary backlashes could curtail this yet. (Different to, say, feminism, which is attacked and on retreat by re-definition.)
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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 06:24:58 JST simsa03

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     The return of nuclear power in particular and the growing embrace in general of science and technology that earlier countercultural attitudes had shied away from. This anewed embrace of technology and acience is not done uncrtically and materialistically (like in the 1950s) but with a sense of skepticism and precaution in which the heritage of countercultural and leftist attitudes and ideas lives on.
     
     So indeed, after 50-60 years of "countercultural skepticism" and "hedonist international left", we may have finally – of course "finally", in order to mark a point or phase of passage – come to a time in which "sustainable" and "environmental friendly" technology doesn't mean reactionary "small town romance" but becomes applicable to the level of an entire industry nation.
     
     That is a conceptual and practical progress not achieved since the start of environmental movements till this day.
     
     (And no, I don't have Stewart Brand in mind whom I find hopelessly locked up in his time. Naïve system thinking and creed in #technology is exactly the wrong direction.)