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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Ada Palmer, who's Terra Ignota series has been broadly labeled as hopepunk (it is how many major reviewers described it), wrote a really interesting piece on this here. |
Thanks, I liked this a lot, and it had several recommendations I'll check out.
Parts of it reminded me of this quote from Lois McMaster Bujold's "The Borders of Infinity":
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"Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace."
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I found another poem with a hopepunk worldview:
Aurora Levins Morales: V'ahavta. It starts:
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Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up,
when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning
and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts,
embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders,
teach them to your children, your neighbors, your enemies,
recite them in your sleep, here in the cruel shadow of empire:
Another world is possible.
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