#microblog This afternoon I shared a passage from [The Ministry for the Future](https://box.omniinc.app/) with collaborators from [Community in a Box](https://www.linkedin.com/company/community-in-a-box-app/?viewAsMember=true), about a fictional Global Internet Cooperative Union. See the passage [here](https://box.omniinc.app/a-nice-excerpt-from-the-ministry-for-the-future/). Here is another passage I read from the book today and resonated with: > [!quote] > “So maybe someday the solidarity will overcome the splitting. I hope so. During the occupation I didn’t want reform, I wanted something entirely new. Now I’m thinking if we can just get the fundamentals working, it would be good. A start to something better. I don’t like to think of this as giving up, it’s just being realistic. We have to live, we have to give this place to the kids with the animals still alive and a chance to make a living. That’s not so much to ask. > > Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change. So we don’t change, and one hard thing now is to go through a time like that, like ours during Paris, two hundred days of a different life, a different world, and then live on past that time in the still bourgeoisified state of things, without feeling defeated. For a time everything seemed possible, you felt free. You feel things so intensely when you’re young, and really it’s the first time I spoke to the world, the first time I wasn’t just the stupid kid in school, but a real person with a real life. Those seven months made me, and I’ll never forget it, never be the same. I only hope to live long enough to see it happen again. Then I’ll be happy.” > > — *(p. 248, The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson, 2020)* Relatedly, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO7eG4I2xcs&t=3451s)'s an excellent conversation with the book's author, Kim Stanley Robinson and Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, about "a logic for the future" - referring to [Heintz' 2025 monogram](https://www.rbf.org/logic-for-future) (haven't read it) and Ministry's discussion of global governance. I'd recommended this video previously in [[Information Overload - April 2025]], but I re-listened to it again today on my way to RRCRC. It was coincidentally timely as [Trump's speech at the United Nations General Assembly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapLuQmSxUE&t=43s) took place only a bit later in the afternoon. > [!quote] > “I will say that there are some people in Washington D.C. ... There's genocide, there's ecocide, there is attempted future-cide. To kill the future. Which you cannot do. So this is a fantasy of people sticking their head in the sand and hoping that they could go back to the past. > ... > You cannot kill the future. It comes. And it comes no matter what a few reactionaries do in a momentary seizure of power. It's coming anyway. They can't stop it.” > > — *([32:48](https://youtu.be/qO7eG4I2xcs?si=mOQMebHsNxLfXDrq&t=1968), Kim Stanley Robinson at The Long Now Foundation, 2025)* Someday the solidarity will overcome the splitting. The future cannot be killed. ![[GlSzVsqWkAAKInl.jpeg]]