Alternative Cultures Are Beautiful and Important. They’re Also Not Enough.

“To believe that demonstrating alternatives to modern industrial capitalism will result in the end of that system is to ignore power… whenever the dominant culture we live in comes into contact with these cultures, it destroys them… empires cannot allow alternatives to exist. If they do, they represent a threat… alternatives — at best — allow us to hold some small pieces of ground while conceding elsewhere… They are defensive… I believe we must move from building alternative cultures to building oppositional cultures. Permaculture movements, Transition Towns, ecovillages, and community land trusts can and must be cultures of resistance.”