My visionary future society

I read this article in the Swedish newspaper ETC about the unquestionable 40h workweek and arguments for alternatives, as in less hours at work every week.

This made me envision another society than what we're currently living in. This "vision" of mine, or what you want to call it, also holds influences from a place I visited about a month ago.

There's this place in this city where I live where a whole block of rental apartments works as a collective community. The atrium area, situated between these houses consists of small garden plots, green houses, a small hen house, berry bushes, fruit trees etc. I've also been reading lately in the same news paper as mentioned above, ETC, about small scale green energy production.

My vision consists of this article I read, a lowering of work hours to 6 hours a day, and to build all new blocks of rental apartments, and edit consisting ones to be like the communal one, where you can grow your own veggies, and where one builds solar cell panels and/or wind power stations on the roofs of these buildings, to get each community partially self-sufficient. The apartment buildings should also be constructed to be as conservative as possible concerning energy usage, and be well isolated to prevent heat leakage during the long and cold winters of Sweden.

There needs to be a significant change of the goals in the current professional sector, though for this to be implementable. To continue to strive for endless growth, for the working people to endlessly be able to increase the amount of work one can do in a given time frame, and for people to consume goods just for the sake of consumerism as it's own goal. Consumerism for profit, regardless of how much this rapes our planet? Is it just me or is it an ignorant, unsustainable and inhumane way of production? It's not possible in the long run, which is evidently confirmed by the continually occurring economical recessions and the contemporary ecological disasters.

Banks, investors and governments, running the same impossible treadmill. Men of power playing their casino games with normal citizen's money, or the board of members caring more about protecting the few investors' wallets than their thousands of employees livelihood. I'm not saying that this or that company should stop giving a damn about the investors.

I'm saying that the whole fucking system is rank. it's rotten and it's not sustainable.

Neither when it comes to ecological, humanitarian or in any other way than short-sighted profit motives. "When your roots are forgotten, your fruits will rotten" as Promoe (Looptroop Rockers) say's in the "Fruits of Babylon". The metaphor I'm trying to convey here is that the employees' value is constantly forgotten. Lenin was right in this matter, the workers in the western world receives this incitements of quite good working conditions and salaries, money which is taken from the environmental and worker's conditions, and salaries from the third world employees. International economic imperialism, sustained by the working class in the west and therefore continually operational and protected from the proletarian revolution since the minds of the proletariat is befouled by the thoughts and views of the bourgeoisie.

Appalling. Nauseating.

Shit's rank and the whole society needs to transform. Cold, inhumane motives needs to stand aside for a new age of sustainability and humanitarian thinking.

I can in no way concur with a system where greed is put on a pedestal and worshiped to such heights that rich, white middle-aged male's greed is what's ruling the world. Seriously, what the FUCK? know what I mean?

With this 6h work day, one could spend the remaining hours of the week to produce one's one food. electricity would be cheep since every community would produce at least part of their own electricity. With less time at work, a more participatory democratic system would be feasible.

Not everyone wants to spend their "free" time with their ass towards the sky and their hands in the soil. What also would be desirable would definitely be various communal workshops. Both cultural and musical ones, as well as software/electronic etc. My vision consists of compact cities which in turn consists of these blocks of communal part-self-sufficient accomodations with gardens and power stations. This goes hand in hand with people going around town on bikes or public transport. For longer distances, a well extended net of public transportation could be combined with carpools with both electric and hybrid cars.

The vision of my future sustainable and loving society lingers in my mind but is stained by the current way of life and way of human beings and their inhumane, selfish ways of interaction with, and exploitation of one another.