welcome to blue world
letters to the world we could be
In blue world, I imagine and write of free and peaceful world. One valuing life over profits again. People, movements, everyday, everywhere, work to make this new world real: envisioning solidarity beyond borders and nationalisms; creating community safety beyond prisons and police; reclaiming sovereignty and regenerative land-based relationships; organizing workers, debtors, and tenants to harness collective power and resist this cannibal economy, as Winona LaDuke terms it.
These living movements inspire and animate the letters I write to you here.
In these essays, I illustrate visions of a world where all are home: living free, with agency and dignity. I’ll describe genuine Democracy and explore the persistent myths keeping us from it. I’ll assess the global asymmetries of wealth and power, and examine their unbroken relationship with settler capitalism. My ultimate goal being to add truthful information to a cluttered, rage-based infosphere.
As I do this, I’ll reflect on my own experiences as a young Italian-American kid moving from Greenpoint to Missoula in the summer of 2002. I’ll ponder what all that means—the identity, free movement, inheritance and responsibility.
Now, living on the southern shores of Spain with my fiancé Macarena, I have the time, space, and support to think, connect, and create. I used to take this support for granted. I used to take these places, this movement, this world, for granted.
Now I know: we can build something better. And indeed, we must.
You with me?
It’s a blue world without you. This always be free and open. All are welcome to thoughtfully and respectfully join these discussions. Subscribe for free, comment your reflections, share the ideas with your circles, and consider financially sustaining the work as a paid subscriber for $30 a year (that is $2.50 a month).
In a year, I aim for around thirteen thorough, lucid analyses of anywhere from one to six thousand words. Each essay is a resource library, blooming full of links and notes to more information. Read the inaugural edition here.
Thank you for being here.
Peace,
Matt
