For hundreds of years, people have claimed that technological progress
would soon liberate humanity from the need to work. Today we have
capabilities our ancestors couldn’t have imagined, but those predictions
still haven’t come true. In the US we actually work longer hours than
we did a couple generations ago—the poor in order to survive, the rich
in order to compete. Others desperately seek employment, hardly enjoying
the comfortable leisure all this progress should provide. Despite the
talk of recession and the need for austerity measures, corporations are
reporting record earnings, the wealthiest are wealthier than ever, and
tremendous quantities of goods are produced just to be thrown away.
There’s plenty of wealth, but it’s not being used to liberate humanity.
Small, local wind turbines provided early electricity for rural farms and homes in the US, prior to rural electrification efforts in the 1930s and 40s that expanded the national grid. One way to bring them back in a more sustainable, efficient (and hopefully socially acceptable) form? Locally crafted, wooden designs: “the company’s mission is to make the countryside – especially farms but also small villages – self-sufficient in terms of power production by designing more beautiful and locally produced wind turbines that people don’t complain about.”
They also discuss integrating small wind and solar, with some beautiful results:
That’s right, I’ve recently been approached by a version of my future-self who called me a silly cunt and told me that, despite being a blog and not even registering as a political party, the AyeforScotland group received 100% of the vote in an independent Scotland’s first parliament.
We’ve got to come up with policies pretty fast so we better get to work.
Irn Bru is designated as a national utility. One could argue it is the lifeblood of the nation and must be nationalised and available through special Irn Bru taps that will be installed in public spaces, and homes.
We reintroduce wolves to Scotland. It’ll be good for the environment and eco-system. If the wolves eat us, then so be it.
A complete ban on vore.
Nationalise all public transport so I dinnae have to pay £213 a month to fucking Abellio for a fucking season ticket to get to work
Take all private estate land - mainly grouse moors into public ownership. Feed grouse moor owners to new wolf population.
Universal basic income. It just makes sense.
Every single child will undergo extensive military training to turn them into Spartans from Halo. When combined with the new Aye-rn Man suits, they’ll be invincible and we’ll only ever use them to aid in natural disasters worldwide.
If the Gender Recognition Act isn’t reformed by then, we’ll do that. This will a. Allow trans people to be recognised as their gender without having to go through horrendous amounts of red tape and b. Allow non-binary people to state that they are non-binary on official documentation.
I’ll probably add more later but there’s a starter.
