Conversation

Regarding the question of lifestyle, a revolution, especially a revolution against collapse, would inevitably force a change in lifestyles, consumption habits, tastes, and preferences. When the revolution comes, who will decide to collectively work at mass slaughter factories? Who will collectively decide that the bulk of social metabolism be devoted to meat? Which community will want to sacrifice decades of their lives to host a coal-fired power plant or risk a nuclear power station? Can a nuclear power station even be organized along egalitarian non-hierarchical lines? Which community will want to devote their locale for nuclear waste management? Like, I will be the first to admit that we will lose a lot of things in the revolutionary process, but this isn't inherently negative in the sense we will gain so much more. Maybe we won't have personal aircons, but maybe we'd design cities to have more trees and have highly efficient passive cooling houses. Maybe we won't eat meat everyday, but we'd have healthier food. Stuff like that.