It's hard to define what "Hexbear" is anymore, with so many of the posts coming from random Lemmy instances. Our brand and subculture are diluted and it shows. A lot more confrontation and friction in threads. So it got me thinking. How can we recapture the authentic sense of what Hexbear is and do something nice for the world as a community?
If you've been watching India's moon mission, you know how happy everyone looks in the footage. They're so proud of their work and the whole nation is congratulating them. Actually the whole world. It's a massive publicity boost and unites an otherwise polarised nation. Well what's stopping us from doing that? Think of all the cool things we could accomplish with a space programme. Designing new rockets, exploring new galaxies, maybe colonising a planet or two as a forum. We would let everyone know what Hexbear represents and could mine asteroids for orbital factories that supply our fleet of ships. One thing we might build is a Dyson Sphere, or maybe even a generation ship to raise the next ten generations of our families together on our way to another solar system. I'm a plant scientist and could probably even grow lettuce in microgravity.
We can do this. I just ask that you trust me and send me the money to do so.
I think federation was not a good idea as federated structures create multiple cores over time we will become periphery to another instance and then just die. I cant tell if that's happening at this point. In my mind hexbear is life capsule for the tail end of the Bernie moment, the left right now is largely discredited and that was hard for me to accept I have focused not on a turn to self like the boomer left and some milianial left have begun to do instead going on some personal journey.
Instead I'm trying to reform my local psl and dsa to build a relationship with the local community and you know actuly provide skills shareing and physical goods, and community for the working class It took me covid siting inside reading the history of the American left to understand why we failed why we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over, I refuse to play that game any longer. And I'm not gonna lie its been hard, but its also been rewarding in friendships and prespective, but somedays I want to not live, and others I feel connected like that hole in my heart is filled.
The one message I guess I want to give the people is two things.
1.We need to take serious the task of building left social reproduction a leftist should be able to go to most cities and find a party that has within groups they can date people in and make friends with at any age.
If this last trend dosent reverse we won't have a political subject anymore, if that happens we won't get power until climate apocalypse renders nation states redundant.