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What book/movie/media made the biggest change on your socio-political views?
For me it was the moneyless man by Mark Boyle.
Being shown how centralised money systems have replaced communal goodwill and collective effort had a profound impact on me.
@solarbear The Manifeste Of The Communist Party, then The Conquest of Bread and A Nos Amis
@solarbear biggest single impact / change in trajectory was probably “a people’s history of the united states,” luckily back in 10th grade
@solarbear reading John Varley's transgender fiction/short stories in the 80s
@solarbear more specifically, the bit on first contact when Picard talks about the federation as existing post scarcity.
The idea that people would choose to live on the younger colonies, at personal risk, in exchange for nothing other than a sense of purpose and adventure, and a chance to help shape the future.
Picard’s response to starfleet command attempting to unilaterally execute an alleged terrorist. Painting the conflict in shades of grey, rather than black and white.
@solarbear mostly my family I think, but listening to rise against as a kid was the first media that really stuck
@solarbear I've attempted to capture all of these books on a list on goodreads, which you can find here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/131135.socio_political_influencial_books_from_sunbeam_city_
@solarbear Although my current socio-political views are based on many small changes during my life, a rather large impact had the 1974 novel The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, which I discovered rather late in 2016.
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An entire childhood of David Attenborough documentaries TBH. In one way or another, they shaped everything that came afterwards, for me.
@solarbear The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi
@solarbear I would say that Ecotopia is up there for me. It got me thinking towards solarpunk.
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Gerry Davis' "My Country Is the World: The Adventures of a World Citizen" pulled the rug out so I fell to the bottom and Chumbawamba's Never Mind the Ballots kicked me arse over to the far left.
@solarbear The Society of the Spectacle or Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism