belushi018
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Hello all, I'm looking for feedback on a story. Would anybody be interested in reading it? Here's the query:
By the 2050s, rampant suicides, massive unemployment, and a worsening water shortage are just a few of the crises that have led millions to “opt out” of the destructive culture and oppressive systems of mainstream society and instead form autonomous, self-sustainable communities. Kai was born and raised in Hanan Pacha, a longstanding “outside” community that has forsworn the internet, recorded music, and other “inside” technologies in favor of a simple, ecologically-minded lifestyle. Recently appointed to be on the community's council of coordinators, he must spend a full year on the inside as part of his training.
A complete stranger to the inside world, Kai encounters a society whose reckless pursuit of technological advancement and comfort has left its people living in a dreamlike state of dependence on the digital world and detachment from the real one—an eerily believable extension of what we already see in 2022. Yet a gut-wrenching experience at a massive protest against unemployment and police brutality introduces him to a whole movement of people on the inside fighting for a better world. He begins questioning the “outside” ideology with which he was raised: is it ethical, even possible, for a community to isolate from the rest of humanity?
He returns home to find out the state is threatening to occupy the community's water reservoirs. When he later learns his best friend has defected, his entire world is shaken. Can he still find meaning in the wholesome but sheltered community that shaped him? Living on the inside where one talks to automated “buddies” through computer screens doesn't seem like an enticing alternative.
The Coordinator is a story of speculative fiction that seeks to explore a major question of our time: “How does one lead a meaningful life in the face of the impending crises and threats to humanity?”
By the 2050s, rampant suicides, massive unemployment, and a worsening water shortage are just a few of the crises that have led millions to “opt out” of the destructive culture and oppressive systems of mainstream society and instead form autonomous, self-sustainable communities. Kai was born and raised in Hanan Pacha, a longstanding “outside” community that has forsworn the internet, recorded music, and other “inside” technologies in favor of a simple, ecologically-minded lifestyle. Recently appointed to be on the community's council of coordinators, he must spend a full year on the inside as part of his training.
A complete stranger to the inside world, Kai encounters a society whose reckless pursuit of technological advancement and comfort has left its people living in a dreamlike state of dependence on the digital world and detachment from the real one—an eerily believable extension of what we already see in 2022. Yet a gut-wrenching experience at a massive protest against unemployment and police brutality introduces him to a whole movement of people on the inside fighting for a better world. He begins questioning the “outside” ideology with which he was raised: is it ethical, even possible, for a community to isolate from the rest of humanity?
He returns home to find out the state is threatening to occupy the community's water reservoirs. When he later learns his best friend has defected, his entire world is shaken. Can he still find meaning in the wholesome but sheltered community that shaped him? Living on the inside where one talks to automated “buddies” through computer screens doesn't seem like an enticing alternative.
The Coordinator is a story of speculative fiction that seeks to explore a major question of our time: “How does one lead a meaningful life in the face of the impending crises and threats to humanity?”
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