A toast to not repeating history's mistakes

Anonymous

November 29, 2024

A toast to not repeating history's mistakes

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Dear future self,
We are currently living in times of great civil unrest. We see the atrocities committed around the world driven by a quest for more power, resources, productivity, success at the cost of another. Inequity is rampant and we are all victims of this as we live lives hoping for financial and physical freedom near the end of it.

Dear future self,
I hope you are living in a time post a transformation, with a new world order. I hope you are living in a time where transparency is rampant in political decision making and equity truely thrives. I hope you are living in a time where historically marginalised groups can represent themselves when policies and corporate decisions affect them (both positively and negatively). I hope you are living in a time where we are aware of and taking care of both the negative and positive externalities of our human actions on nature, where circularity is the norm and that we are truely regenerative - leaving a place thriving further than how we found it. I hope you are living in a time where the knowledge of traditional custodians of the land is prioritised, and a mind-body-spirit-place connection is restored. I hope technology is leveraged for the collective good, rather than a tool to build wealth for a few. I hope community has replaced the individualism that currently seeks to divide and conquer us. And I hope that colonialism in a macro scale, a micro scale, and in our minds is abolished and that we have learned from history's mistakes not to repeat its narratives.

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Prihodnost ki si jo zelim.

I want a future where we plant more trees than we cut down, where we reverse the effects of ice storms and floods. I want a future where we don't accumulate waste electric cars and electric wind turbines. I want waste to be recovered and not piled on rubbish heaps. I want us not to be part of the great extinction of animal species that is taking place today. I want us to have zero emissions and not raise the temperature of the earth to the point of no return. Above all, I want the richest people in the world to be taxed at 100 per cent above the wealth threshold. And that these profits are invested back into nature. I want to see the preservation of native seeds and not of genetically modified species. I want less plastic and more sustainability. I want free healthcare, free salt and free water. I want a world without war and hunger. Without disease. No vaccines that change our genetics. No robots among us. No ai intelligences to threaten us.

Il futuro non è sempre progresso

Nel 2040 significa tra 15 anni, quando lo scrivente avrà l'età di 80 anni. La prima considerazione da fare è tra un'immaginazione forse un po' utopistica ed un'altra decisamente più realistica. Indubbiamente tra 15 anni la vita sarà molto diversa, dal momento che il mondo procede a velocità supersonica ma, almeno al mio punto di vista, questa progressione non è per nulla, o comunque non del tutto, positiva. Negli ultimi anni, purtroppo, le guerre stanno proliferando come funghi, e quindi la prima speranza per il futuro, cioè nel 2040, è che l'agitazione generalizzata possa rientrare in maniera decisiva. Un'altra considerazione, sulla quale non sono per niente fiducioso, è che la vita in genere possa, almeno in parte, rallentare la sua corsa, anche se mi sembra che la cosiddetta evoluzione tecnologica stia spingendo in una direzione assolutamente opposta. Dal punto di vista strettamente spero, se ci sarò ancora, di poter godere di una discreta salute.

speranza

I hope that there will be less bureaucracy in carrying out practices and streamlining all procedures relating to requests for documents, aid, etc., I hope that there will be less taxes and more work for young people and that there will be the sharing of the common good that is missing in our institutions today.

Dragi dnevnik

1 January 2040 9am. I'm sitting on the terrace, it's snowing... A lot of snow. We have those real winters again. We took care of our land in time. Since we cut air traffic, our land has recovered. And since the wars stopped, the climate has improved. I am thinking about what I need to pack in my suitcase, I am going to the spa. Since we have a 3 to 1 ratio we are living very well. A director can have 3 times a worker's salary. And so my salary is decent too. I can also afford a few days of relaxation in a spa, a health resort. The children have their own flat. They built a lot of flats a few years ago. 60 square metres. Before that, they built luhsuzna huge flats, it was no use. 4 flats could be made out of one. Well, now that's sorted too. And if you need a doctor you get one immediately, there are no queues. I work 4 days a week and so I have time to tend to my garden. We are all trying to be self sufficient. We have factories again and people like to go to work since they have fair pay. And my town is Slovenian again. Now that work is paid fairly we have enough people of our people working. Foreigners have returned to their countries. Dear diary that is enough for today. Let us write to each other again tomorrow. I am hurrying to the spa.

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