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Solarpunk Mythos
by Will Cameron
At the intersection of solarpunk, psychological development, masculinity, and personal mythology.
Episodes
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Why Do Jungian Archetypes Matter for Solarpunk? - A Short Introduction to Post-Jungian Environmentalism
In this essay, I explain the reason I write about post-Jungian psychology in the context of solarpunk and why I think it's an effective approach to climate action. While it certainly should not be the only thing or even the primary thing we do, it can be effective for creating cultures capable of...
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The Denigration of Goddesses – A Solarpunk History of a Post-Jungian Archetype
In this essay, we discuss the myth of the prehistoric Mother Goddess as a distinctly modern invention projected onto our past. I then turn to the very real denigration of the goddesses, being demonized and forgotten by patriarchal monotheism. I end the essay with a discussion of how the complex...
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The Origin of Technofeudal Gender – A Solarpunk History of Gender Hierarchy
In this essay, we consider whether the emergence of patriarchal social systems was the emergence of gender as such. How does this fit in with the idea of a post-hierarchical gender liberation that's a response to a history of oppression rather than a retreat before it? To answer that question, we...
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The Origin of Technofeudal Patriarchy - A Solarpunk History of Hierarchy’s Birth
In this essay, we discuss the origins of patriarchal hierarchy within the egalitarian societies of our ancestors. While material accumulation certainly matters, there are examples of surplus not leading directly to hierarchy for many generations. Understanding the overwhelming complexity of our...
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The Ethical Weight of Complexification - A Post-Human Solarpunk Light on Evolution’s Fascist Shadow
In this essay, we discuss the controversy over whether or not evolution drives toward complexity or mere diversity. One of the obstacles is the fascist implications of any sort of purpose or direction to evolution. From far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics to organisms as hypotheses made by entire...
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How Technofeudalist Capitalism Shapes Our Desire - Solarpunk Praxeology
In this essay, we discuss how our culture fills us with profit-driven stories, mass-produced archetypes, and narcissistic desires. Why do we desire things that harm us rather than things that contribute to human flourishing? Who defined what makes a truly good life and why do you continue to...
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Are Chimps Less Worthy of Moral Concern? - Complexifying Our Way to a Post-Human Solarpunk Ontology
In this essay, I bring Francesca Ferrando’s post-human philosophy into dialogue with the Neo-Piagetian educational philosophy of Theo Dawson and Zak Stein. Post-humanism stands for a post-dualism that refuses the oppression of dualisms, but if not taken carefully risks the oppressive dualism...
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Why Can’t the West Be Egalitarian? - A Solarpunk History of Humanity’s Origins
In this essay, I discuss the roadblocks in the way of Western egalitarianism through a discussion of our nomadic prehistory, the emergence of gender hierarchy, and social status. Contrary to popular belief, human beings have spent the majority of the last several hundred thousand years in...
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Who Counts As Human? - Preliminaries to a Post-Human Solarpunk Ontology
In this essay, I discuss the contradiction embedded in the claim that ethical relations can make us more human. To say such a thing is to imply that some of us are less human than others. This creates a morally dubious hierarchy in which solarpunk humanization is itself, effectively…
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Jungian Archetypes vs. Internal Family Systems - What's the difference?
In this essay, I discuss the differences between Jungian archetypes and "parts" from Internal Family Systems. I first consider them on axes of complexity, autonomy, and mythology, with archetypes having greater potentials along each. I then discuss how these differences are not merely horizontal,...
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Jungian Archetypes for a Solarpunk Culture
In this essay, I discuss contemporary theories of Jungian archetypes so that we can understand how they can be effective for creating solarpunk culture. Far from being "universal principles" that recreate patriarchal culture and gender roles, archetypes are better conceived as performing certain...
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A Solarpunk Worldview
In this essay, I introduce the concept of worldview as a lens through which one reads reality. How and why do we interpret the experiences we have in the way that we do? Given that, how can we update our current worldview toward a worldview that can make solarpunk a reality?
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Find Love By Building Community - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 25/25
In this essay, I discuss the importance of building community for finding and creating love. Not only for actually finding a partner, but for becoming the kind of person a partner would want to be with. The greatest error of most dating advice is to give in to the hyper-individualism that sees…
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The Sexist Assault of the Container Event - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 24/25
A container event is a party engineered to make the hosts appear high status and at the center of the attention of many women. While the purpose is obviously to facilitate sex, the result is a violent conflation of power, attention, and attraction. In the end, they constitute the sexist use of...
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Why Do Powerful Men Assault Women? - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 23/25
In this essay, I discuss Nussbaum's work on the power dynamics that allow abusers to harass women in professional settings, sometimes for years. In solarpunk societies, we must be aware of how power dynamics blind us so that we can keep our eyes open. This requires us to actually care about the...
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A Caring Society - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 22
In this essay, I discuss the necessity of a caring society in the development of people capable of autonomous rationality and of pursuing justice. We take these capabilities for granted and then wonder why we're surrounded by people wholly incapable of what seems to us to be basic decency. What…
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Xenophilic Cultures of Trust and Care - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 21
In this essay, I discuss the Greek form of love known as "xenia", or the love of foreigners and guests. The more diverse a population becomes, the greater the demands for xenia in order to have enough coherence despite that plurality. With the internet, we have even greater blending of people…
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Placental Nihilism and Oily Bubbles - Reflections on Peter Sloterdijk's "Bubbles"
In this essay, I discuss Peter Sloterdijk's philosophical work, "Bubbles". A bubble is the relational space that includes two people. In the past, people have created bubbles that were rich with meaning, but such bubbles have become nihilistic spaces under capitalism. How might we re-enchant our...
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Social Status and Creepy Men - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 20
In this essay, I discuss how creepy men are often simply low status in an unjust hierarchy. Importantly then, high status men can often be far more deserving of the label "creepy", yet their unethical behaviour is ignored by people who crave their social status. When low status men are…
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Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates - Solarpunk Reflections
In this essay I discuss Laura Bates book "Men Who Hate Women" and discuss the problem of speaking up, whether that means against or for a certain group or individual. When we fail to speak, we are held accountable when we live in the world our inaction allowed. Yet, speaking must be both against...
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Technofeudalism and Integrated Capabilities - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 19
In this essay, I discuss how environments can force us to develop certain capabilities in order to survive. Once combined, these capabilities offer us access to new worlds, but also limit us to those worlds. How can we create a better society when our current society limits what we're capable of…
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Solarpunk Psychology, 5Rhythms Dancing, and Social Identity’s Cages - dumb essay #2
To help frame this essay, my focus in my writing is on the psychology necessary to make solarpunk a reality. To create such a psychology we need to have an understanding of both the theory and practice behind it. Many people are engaged in political action or developmental practices like therapy,...
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Circling into Solarpunk Culture - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 18
In this essay, I discuss how our culture of narcissism has reduced friendships to selfish transactions. I then discuss "circling" as a practice for developing the deep mutuality that can facilitate healthy friendship and culture. Circling is an interpersonal practice meant to cultivate emotional...
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Masculinist Subjectivity and Anti-Masculinity - dumb essay #1
In this essay, I question the use of the term "masculinist" to denote subjectivities that privilege the masculine above the feminine. I first steelman the term by deconstructing Red Pill via the Kantian Society of Mind. I then titanium-man "masculinist" as "patriarchal", though with a sensitivity...
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How Can Men And Women Be Platonic Friends? - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 17
In this essay, I discuss the developmental process for how a misogynistic man who cannot be friends with women can become a man capable of being friends. While the thought may seem so grotesque, the fact is that there are men like this and far, far worse. The people who most need to change must…
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Can Men and Women Be Platonic Friends? - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 16
In this essay, I question whether men and women can ever truly be "just" friends. Research seems to suggest that women can, but men can't. How can friendship work when so many men would fuck all their friends? Think about what this says about the limits to egalitarianism in a solarpunk culture.…
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Solarpunk Halloween/Samhain - Capitalism, Alterity, and Transformation
In this essay, I deconstruct Halloween as an example of a mythos. A mythos includes a narrative with practices, rituals, and festivals that orient people within that narrative. Think about the story you tell yourself about what it means to be a citizen of your nation, and how national anthems,...
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Why Are Platonic Friendships Important? - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 15
In this essay, I use platonic friendships as an example for how the self is created out of its relations with others. This may seem odd since I've been using romantic relations as a case study for the definition of a solarpunk self. Why are platonic friendships necessary for romance that can…
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The Meta-Contextuality of the Self - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 14
In this essay I connect the dots I've been laying down over the last 13 essays. If the self is relational, created out of its relations with others and the world, then we have to reckon with the meta-contextuality of the self. We are created out of contexts that we create through the person we...
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The Necessity of Social Validation in Developing Autonomy - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 13
In this essay, I outline the movement from Expert to Achiever, and beyond. To grow out of conformity we must conform to Experts who represent our emerging ideal. That means that our ideal is intimately bound up with what our culture takes to be "expertise". If you like this episode, please be…
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From Conformity to Achievement - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 12
In this essay, I discuss the psychological development that occurs from Conformist to Individualist/Pluralist. I first outline what it means to be Conformist, how we become defined by a social identity. I then outline the movement away from conformity through experts that represent an emerging...
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The Twisted Love of Phobos and Thanatos - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 11
In this essay, I discuss the twisted forms of love, phobos and thanatos. Phobos is the love of unhealthy aspiration that drives us to hate the "lower" parts of ourselves. Thanatos is the love of our current world's desires to the exclusion of any aspirational self. I then explore the...
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Sexual Consent and Erotic Agape - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 10
In this essay, I united the loves of eros and agape into the stance of erotic agape and the self as a student/teacher. As we interact, we are each of us students and teachers of each other. I then apply this to the problem of consent. If you like this episode, please be sure to 5 star the podcast...
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The Agony of Eros - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 9
In this essay, I introduce eros as the creative love of self-transcending agency. In our development as human beings we must be called to learn and to grow, which requires the willingness to transcend who we currently are. This is not the love of consumption, but of aspiration. If you like this...
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Agape and the Deservedness of Personhood - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 8
In this essay I introduce agape as the love of compassionate, educative hospitality for the student's flaws, faults, and mistakes. In producing solarpunk selves we need to be willing to make room for the imperfections of those we seek to change. Transformation is hard enough without punishing...
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Aspirational Ecologies of Self-Development - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 7
In this essay, I discuss how self-development requires an ecology of practices that focus on multiple forms of development. I then talk about the philosophy of aspiration and define what an increase in complexity means. If you like this episode, please be sure to 5 star the podcast and follow for...
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The Multiplicity of Solarpunk Selves - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 6
In this essay I go deeper into the notion that we are composed of parts. In understanding the solarpunk self we need to take these parts into consideration because they can be at different stages of development. If we, despite our usual behaviour, frequently do things that defy our best…
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The Flowering of the Solarpunk Self - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 5
In this essay, I discuss the philosophy of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Byung-Chul Han, and how they can help us understand how the solarpunk self emerges. What does it mean to relate to the other as Alter, and why does this actually matter? If you like this episode, please be sure to 5…
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The Chrysalis and the Butterfly - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 4
In this essay, I continue my redefinition of the self in a solarpunk culture. We discuss the quality of relations using Martin Buber's distinction between "You" and "It", and then Levinas distinction between "totality" and "infinity". We apply it to the concept of the sexual citizen, using that…
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Atomized Selves and Solarpunk Dividuals - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 3
In this essay, I continue the deconstruction of the neoliberal individual, the self-interested, autonomous, rational actor we are all expected to be. I then introduce the notion of the relational dividual, or a conception of the self that takes itself to be created out of its relationships and so...
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Solarpunk Selves Aren't Liberal Individuals - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 2
In this essay, I begin to contrast the solarpunk self with the notion of the liberal individual, the autonomous, rational actor that we are all assumed to be. What does it mean to expect people to be liberal individuals when many of these capacities must be developed toward? What happens when we...
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Solarpunk Selves and Sexual Ethics - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 1
In this essay, I begin defining a solarpunk self as a relational self, or one created out of its relations with others and the world. Given the egalitarianism of solarpunk, we need relations that are ethical, and according to Beauvoir and Levinas, the sexual relation is exemplary of the ethical.…
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A Solarpunk Mythos - An Aspirational Vision of the Future
In this essay, I introduce a new direction for the channel. We're going to start focusing on solarpunk and the psychological development we need to get there. You can find this podcast on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy_t6Yfd3WA You can also find written versions of these with...
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Does Becoming an “Alpha” Stop Men from Becoming Adults? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 9
In this essay, I introduce the concept of sexual geography and how it can help us understand how a lack of sexual communion, or other-interested care, can manifest. If pickup artistry teaches sexual agency without communion, then we can see how quickly problems might emerge. Patreon -...
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Why Are Most Adults Not Ready For Dating? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 8
In this essay, I introduce Hirsch and Kahn's concept of sexual citizenship and how it reveals the radical idea that most adults do not meet the criteria. What are the consequences of having a population of adults who fail to meet the demands for citizenship? Patreon -...
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Do women like psychopaths? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 7
In this essay I discuss findings that Dark Triad men tend to have the highest number of sexual partners. If this is the case, can we really create a post-patriarchal pickup artistry? To answer this question we consider game acceptance, game denial, and game change. Patreon -...
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Why Do Women Like Bad Men? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 6
In this essay I discuss the bodyguard hypothesis, which states that women will choose dominant men who will protect them from other men. I then explore the implications of this hypothesis on the horizon of romantic possibility. Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/metamasculine If you like this...
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Are Pickup Artist Theories True? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 5
In this essay I address the big question everyone has about pickup artistry, are their theories actually true? To answer this we have to understand the nature of theory itself much more deeply. How do our theories shape our experiences and define our interpretations of those experiences? Patreon…
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Predatory Men or Romantic Misinterpretation? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 4
In this essay I talk about how the romantic game of man the pursuer and woman the pursued leads to romantic misinterpretations. This turns this game into man the predator and woman the victim. Find out why this happens and what we can start doing about it. Patreon -...
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I Suck At Talking To Girls - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 3
In this essay I introduce the fundamental premise of pickup artistry as, "I suck at talking to women, and I want to learn how so that they are excited about the possibility of sex or romance with me." I then introduce one of the most popular romantic games - man the pursuer, woman the pursued…
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At the intersection of solarpunk, psychological development, masculinity, and personal mythology.
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