A thread on my game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions. My experiences refracted through the lens of satirical cyberpunk. https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/113092063894254681
Help us Native Hawaiians not become homeless again, keep doing more game making, education and resisting colonial oppression. ko-fi.com/silverspook patreon.com/c/neofeud
More on Hawaii that was an advanced socialist country with the world's highest literacy rate, Universal Healthcare, electric lights before the white house, mass affordable public transit, renewable nationalized electricity, virtually no homelessness, and actual racial equality, until the US coup. https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/114790979757306715
Hui were 1800's worker-coops where Hawaiians and other Asia + Pacific islanders worked together for collective benefit. The Western colonizers had racially stratified plantations with white capitalist owners & brown underpaid near-slave workers. Because of this, we boycotted their banks & businesses
In the Hawaiian story of 'The Flying Kalo', the one ali'i (leader) on Moku o Keawe who began to hoard wealth was chastised by kalo itself, and all the other ahupuaa (districts) came together to pressure him to resume collective redistribution. Also known as ho'oponopono (to make right).
Emma Kaleleonālani, fought for the world's first universal healthcare system in 1859, in Hawaii. No Western country would attempt socialized medicine for a century. The US decimated our free healthcare for selfish profit. Today US workers are wealth-stripped by private healthcare
Pre-colonization, we Hawaiians worked 3-4 hours per day, and all resources (food, medicine, housing) were distributed according to need through the ahupua'a system. Zero hoarding (capitalism) was allowed by ali'i (leaders), and mass worker exodus as retaliation prevented it.
A thread on my game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions. My experiences refracted through the lens of satirical cyberpunk. https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/113092063894254681
Happy #juneteenth ! Before the US colonialists banned Hawaiian language & culture, Hawaii had true equality for Black people. Former slaves like Anthony Allen came to Hawaii, prospered & helped build schools, hospitals & started Hawaii's first bowling alley.
Many Americans think that Hawaiians lived in huts prior to colonization. The US didn't liberate, but in fact de-industrialized Hawai'i. Before 1898, Hawai'i already had mass transit, railroads. The city of Honolulu was lit by nationalized, renewable hydropower before the White House had electricity. #July4#IndependenceDay
Soon there will be two options for every product and service: one run by the Empire's Failboy CEOs surrounded by 100,000 gen-AI employees that works 0.1% of the time, and another coop option run by normal humans that works 95% of the time.
The first Silver Spook game was my Deus Ex total conversion Terminus Machina. Homeless hacktivist dodges robot cops & drone-strikes in downtown San Fran amidst financial collapse & 90% AI-driven unemployment, tries to grow food & jailbreak prison-slaves into a resistance!
Since the US banned Hawaiian language and culture, our native language speakers dwindled to the brink of extinction in the 1980s (>100 child speakers). The fact we've 30,000+ Hawaiians speakers now is testament to our struggle to preserve our culture from eradication.
Creator of Neofeud, a dystopic cyberpunk adventure game. https://bit.ly/2OrX9ib Also a Native Hawaiian, social worker, parent, and STEM robotics teacher. They/he/she (Mahu - Hawaiian 3rd gender)