Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
A heuristic for how freedom-friendly your urbanism aesthetic is: If you draw an image of a city with your urbanism aesthetic, and then replace a random building with a McDonalds, how much worse does it become? Lunarpunk clearly beats solarpunk on this dimension.
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Devon
@devon
That is one branch of solarpunk art, but I prefer this interpretation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJJktxCY9U It's also more resilient to the McDonalds test (although not perfectly so) I hope the Dear Alice style is what people think of as solarpunk becomes more mainstream, though I think it's unlikely
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Devon
@devon
The most common style of solarpunk art depicts scenes from an aerial view, rather than a human perspective As a result, many solarpunk artists systematically underrate the texture of real life Maybe it's because real life is messy, and it's harder to depict it without getting bogged down by the mundanity of it all
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Father Abraham
@father-abraham
Reminds me a little of Studio Ghibli, which I love - I’d be fascinated to see an experiment where a few thousand people were to focus on this sort of thing and genuinely immerse themselves for 3 weeks.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I like this! Definitely feels like the sort of environment I would want to live in, and definitely more robust to McDonalds incursions!
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