The stories we tell impact our lives in many unexpected ways. In this video we will talk about the most important story yet to be told. Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheBookofIve HUGE thanks to @that5thpuddle and Sam @Afterthoughts for helping out with the video! Follow me: https://www.instagram.com/thebookofive/ https://twitter.com/thebookofive Timestamps: Intro - 00:00 Brief History of Cyberpunk - 1:55 Aesthetic Commodified - 4:33 So... Why is Solarpunk - Punk? - 8:44 Solarpunk Manifesto - 11:10 Epilogue - 18:02 Sources and Further Readings: Union Membership and Wealth Inequality - https://jacobin.com/2021/09/labor-day-chart-union-membership-share-top-10-percent-income-inequality "Techno-Orientalism" and Hollywood's Fear of Asia by @MaiaCVideos - https://youtu.be/M8e8xtvElpQ?si=rKeitmRbue2Jznqu Who Shot Guybrush Threepwood? | Genre and the Adventure Game by @InnuendoStudios - https://youtu.be/tMVl5U3SlS0?si=wY2SDuvpML4x_Mm0 "Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?" by Mark Fisher (Published by Zero Books) What Kind Of Game Did Cyberpunk 2077 Turn Out To Be, Anyway? by @broadcaststsatic - https://youtu.be/lWEkeqJ2djM?si=jIeyzwIjYiHwDyeL How Capitalism Destroys Radical Movements by @SecondThought - https://youtu.be/7ucF2IeJTfE?si=EbDoqm1rCTt0Nta6 Tomorrow's Leaves Short Film - https://youtu.be/Ie_IkQtZyK4?si=oQt_m6KpwF-MNUmo Olivia Louise's Tumblr Post - https://missolivialouise.tumblr.com/post/94374063675/heres-a-thing-ive-had-around-in-my-head-for-a 'Dear Alice' Decommodified Edition by @waffletotheleft3443 - https://youtu.be/UqJJktxCY9U?si=vk1h6EoOebwy3sUl Solarpunk Manifesto - https://www.re-des.org/es/a-solarpunk-manifesto/ COLZA Short Film - https://youtu.be/jpyYiMAvo6U?si=-hlZcILYiOx0Rm47 A Psalm For the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Published by Tor.com) The Dark Cost of Electric Cars by @OurChangingClimate - https://youtu.be/XCECoZBZ5aU?si=75Lg9kBoV5FT6KM3 15 Minute Cities by @radicalplanning - https://youtu.be/HUHVD_4PkjU?si=h4JBjgq_vVoCTDj4 We Need A Library Economy by @Andrewism - https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk?si=Jg-n-1S0yDud6pKD Why We Need Degrowth by @OurChangingClimate - https://youtu.be/48G3ox90wss?si=RWhlZW6xezKPyREI Imagining a Solarpunk Education by @HumanRestorationProject - https://youtu.be/2Nh0EkuiBzs?si=VALbSHnJQZQgUGbc Why We Need To Abolish Borders by @Andrewism - https://youtu.be/u00X1XPQBnM?si=cpcXGrSiJ4g7JHGI The Myth of the Barter Economy - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/ How The Barter Myth Harms Us by @Andrewism - https://youtu.be/W-gdHrINyMU?si=glQ6Li27HsTjiTAt Neoliberalism: From Ronald Reagan to the Gig Economy by @Tom_Nicholas - https://youtu.be/rG3bNSyhlSU?si=MkekyyxUgVAWGisi Why It's So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism by @SecondThought - https://youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y?si=GXKI2Q6xjvqvHkdH How To Build A Solarpunk City by @Andrewism - https://youtu.be/4UmU1dSe3n0?si=uw2XdYY64FOp-Say Planned Obsolescence Will Kill Us All by @unlearningeconomics9021 - https://youtu.be/Fz68ILyuWtA?si=Bf9DK0Xa8mnw9KuI Making Sense of Capitalism by @unlearningeconomics9021 - https://youtu.be/8Z2LCNAVfMw?si=n7g3w8qin2dQ-i4H The Cyclical Failures of Bethesda's Terrible Writing by @JessieGender1 - https://youtu.be/bRv8tmrVxxo?si=gbj6jpvfqMqFF_ia Why We Need Utopias by @OurChangingClimate - https://youtu.be/9fxbDhoYlh8?si=RKqVxpljYRM75v7O Very cool Solarpunk artist - https://dustinjacobus.com/ Ursula Le Guin's Full Speech - https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=o1fdj-Dmg2J6gD0Q Visuals: Terra Nil, Factorio, Cyberpunk 2077, Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, Johnny Mnemonic, Tomorrow's Leaves, Dear Alice, COLZA, Love, Death + Robots, Strange World. Stock Images and Footage provided by Pixabay Footage Credits: Factorio Footage by @Nathans-Sandbox 1980's Wall Street Footage by @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 1980's New York Footage by @VintageLynx Mortgage Rates News Story by @TheEconomicsArchives Cyberpunk 2077 Free Roam Footage by @DayDreamGamingTV Cyberpunk 2077 Kerry Eurodine Questline Footage by @GamesfromMarsYT Misc Cyberpunk 2077 Footage by @ChristopherOdd The Beauty of Cyberpunk 2077 by @defendthehouse Disco Elysium Footage by @myparanoidass2464 Music: First Light (Terra Nil), Blossom (Terra Nil), Title Reveal (Terra Nil), Mud Pits (Rain World), Icarus (Deus Ex: Human Revolution), Sewer Stress (Deus Ex: Human Revolution), 14FC (Cloudpunk), Oxygen (Terra Nil), The Omega Institute (Deus Ex: Human Revolution), Urban Downunder (Cyberpunk 2077), Surface of Gorgon (The Outer Worlds), Groundbreaker (The Outer Worlds), Hearing the Forest (Terra Nil), Clear Water (Terra Nil), Rules of Nature (Metal Gear Rising: Revengance), You Are Not Welcome Here (Pathologic 2), One Night in New Orleans (Norco), CGI Snake (Chris Zabriskie), Ignus Nilsen Waltz (Disco Elysium), Mae (GRIS), Gris Pt.1 (Gris). #videoessay #solarpunk #cyberpunk #terranil