Reading a lot of post-apocalytptic frankly closer to utopian than dystopian novels for my own edification (post-nation state, consensus democratic syndical networks, sustainability emphasis, eco-harmonious living, indigenous centered) and yeah.

I find more hope & meaning in reading the potential lives we could lead along with resisting real life fascism, capitalism, & the current oligarchal world order than I ever did/do participating in *gestures at whatever this mainstream shitshow is*.

Hopeful post-apocalyptic takes:
🔸️Silo 49 Quadrilogy by Ann Christy - an optimistic take set in the Silo universe w Silo author Hugh Howey's consent
🔸️Bunker Quadrilogy by Jordan Rivet
🔸️Koli Ramparts Trilogy by MR Carey

All contain a component of terrible suffering & collapse of the world order as well as an exploration of the entire range of possible organizations of our societies & economies. Including optimistic imaginative takes on how we *could* live.

Ursula Le Guin or whomever was right about capitalism's first or most important victims being our own imaginations of how things could be done differently.

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