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I'm at the point where I'm seeing decentralization and community control of production as less of a means to slowly move away from capitalism, and more of a crucial effort to ensure our communities' survival when capitalism inevitably and imminently collapses
Once you pay attention, you start to notice that once the 18-wheelers stop coming, most of us are fucked. Especially now, when most of our possessions are designed to be ephemeral to force us to regularly replenish them
You can't rely on the internet to always give you that information once you need it. You need not only the knowledge, but the experience to keep things running after our lifelines are cut. We need DIY culture and local infrastructure now
"Why do you have all those books you can just use the internet"
Look, all of our communications are satellite based and stupid easy to disrupt. I'd rather have important stuff stored somewhere that doesn't run out of batteries.
@socalledunitedstates I'm suuuuper late to this, but I just found out about the Foxfire books, which have tons and tons of information in them that'd be useful for exactly this scenario.
@socalledunitedstates my town needs the coal train to come in daily if not twice a day, or else our town will have rolling blackouts.
@emsenn Sounds like it's time to get ahead of the game with DIY energy independence
@emsenn @socalledunitedstates ...that's *horrifying,* both in terms of amount of coal and the precariousness of your town's power situation
Literally have a stack of books I refuse to throw away cus they're filled with medical and farming information.
@Chickiepup Leave them in a free library so other people can learn too!
@socalledunitedstates God, yes. Some of the most important work anticapitalists can do is setting up local infrastructure (esp. for food and medicine). If we don't, neither revolution nor collapse will go well for us.
@socalledunitedstates Where would you recommend starting on picking up these skills?
@inkblot_sandwiches Think of something you want to know how to do and look up how to do it. Go to events at public libraries where they teach things, or even better a free skool if there's one in your area. Talk to your neighbors and friends who have skills and ask them to teach you. Look for local chapters of groups like Food Not Lawns or Sewing Rebellion. Ask around on Mastodon, and read the SunDIY tag