About Bluegrass
Solarpunk. Hopepunk. Words that paint worlds. Spark the light for a brighter tomorrow.
The Story
Imagine yourself walking through a dense forest at night in search of food and medicinal herbs. It is the second year since the plague has hit your region and your loved ones need you to provide for them. And so you find yourself here, in a dark forest. You know there are other hunters around seeking the exact same resources as you, but the plague has been so devastating that resources have dwindled and become scarce. The air now reeks with desperation and mistrust for everyone other than one’s own kin. Even if you gain what you’re looking for, who is to say that a rival hunter hidden in the dark will not simply kill you and take it for themselves?
This is the situation I believe contemporary society might devolve to if things are left the way they are right now. The Dark Forest Hypothesis from Liu Cixin postulates that the pressures within a socio-cultural system will cause actors within it to exhibit mutual mistrust of one another and this will eventually result in violence between multiple parties.
This project was undertaken to educate others about potential ways to prevent the world from becoming a microcosm of the Dark Forest. I believe that the values and concepts inherent in the solarpunk and hopepunk movements hold the key in ensuring that the global forest of human civilization does not go totally dark.
What Bluegrass can do for you
Any means necessary regardless of the cost. Do or get done.
If you’re not with us, you’re against us. Dog eat dog. The strong eat the weak, it’s just the way of the world. Kill or be killed. Take or be taken from.
How many times have you heard the statements above? Whether from outside or from your own thoughts?
We at Bluegrass are here to show that things don’t have to be this way. At least, not totally. While the systems set up in place for contemporary society to function gives competition between one another a place, it does not have to occupy such an elevated status in the human zeitgeist. That is, things do not have to end up like Squid Game for resources. Things do not have to end up like in Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest. Not while there’s still time to adjust the trajectory of how things are playing out
We at Bluegrass see this as our way of contributing to the adjustment of that trajectory. Our humble pebble cast into the tides of human thought through the internet in the hopes that the ripples formed will reach those who will want to help spark the light for a brighter tomorrow.
With that said, we are also geeks at heart and will use this blog to discuss games, stories and characters we are passionate about. Are you also a fan of what you see us discuss? Feel free to interact with us and help us grow a community where everyone is welcome to let their ideas roam free.