Hopepunk, Optimism, Purity, and Futures of Hard Work by Ada Palmer -

Hopepunk, Optimism, Purity, and Futures of Hard Work by Ada Palmer - "Fiction does not give us many stories of continuing to slog on after an unsatisfying partial victory. That makes hopepunk powerful."

“The punk movement is anti-establishment, with long ties to political activism and resistance, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian, with a strong ethic of visibility and in-your-face active expression of these sentiments.” I’m tired. You’re tired too. Right now, we’re all more tired than most people have been in our entire lives—studies show this, both studies of our mid-pandemic world and older studies of the neurological effects of trauma and emergencies, the subtle, cumulative damage to brain and body that comes from waking day after day for months on end to find the…

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