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topa wrote

I like that you called it Dessert because it is a treat

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zoom_zip OP wrote

ah this is great stuff!

Basically anything you do at home that is either domestic labor that is unpaid, washing your dishes, patching a roof you'd continue to do. Or things that require effort but are what we would call hobbies, baking great cakes, painting, gardening, reading, making music. Maybe many more people would acquire the skills of nurses or care workers, I doubt anyone would continue running a call centre.

this has given me a bunch of great ideas, just thinking about the manifestation of these ideas in the context of collapsing civilisation.

I think it would be interesting to explore how those who have managed the previous world might fare int he new one.

i think i'd be conscious about creating caricatures, so it doesn't seem like i'm trying to write to some specific message in an analogous way (as if a climate catastrophe story wouldn't be heavy handed enough). i don't know if you've seen the film the mist but it very quickly breaks people down into their jobs--there is the soldier and the artist and the religious zealot and the elderly and the child and then examines this gross utilitarian outlook on how valuable people are based on these qualities about themselves.

i do think that would be a thing to explore in some way though; obviously there would be people that want to fix or rebuild capitalism, or reject a progressive future. that's the first thing people always ask me when i even bring up anarchy; "how are you going to deal with the people that are going to exploit you?"--at the same time I feel like that's just leaning back into the road levels of nihilistic thought.

anyway, my deadline is october, and i won't be able to share anything until maybe the start of next year, once i've run it through all of the various channels it needs to go through. once that's done i could share it.

thanks for these suggestions.

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