The Zone

Political, cultural, and climate conditions worsen at an exponential rate. Traditional forms of political opposition have not stopped the drift into fascism. Climate activists now face oppression like that encountered by dissidents in Communist controlled Eastern Europe. The parallel polis is a socio-political concept enunciated by the Czech political thinker and dissident Vaclav Benda, a theoretical framework for a new society. The Czech parallel polis hastened the collapse of the communist dictatorship. Likewise, Parallel Polis 2030 works to hasten the dead weight of the carbon state's collapse upon itself, softening the blow through the creation of new forms of resistance and alternative ways of living.

“[I]f it proves impossible legally to compel the ruling power to change the ways it governs us, and if for various reasons those who reject this power cannot or do not wish to overthrow it by force, then the creation of an independent or alternative or parallel [society] is the only dignified solution…”

Ivan Jirous, Parallel Polis: An Inquiry.

 Parallel Polis 2030 is a call to creativity, working together to create an umbrella of ideas, support structures, and learning opportunities. We won't just resist the elite oligarchs; we'll ignore their incessant efforts to infect rational thought and suppress spirituality. Without transformative and oppositional structures for support, asking people to confront ecological overshoot genocide is akin to demanding they search in the dark. Thus, Parallel Polis 2030 emphasizes reawakening to become radically human.

“The real question is whether the ‘brighter future’ is always so distant. What if it has been here for a long time already – and only our own blindness and weakness have prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?”

Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless.

 Parallel Polis 2030 is structured around five arenas of action:

1.  Radically Human Ways of Life.

2. Understanding Ecological Overshoot.

3. Scientific Truth Telling.

4.  Artivism as a Way of Being.

5. Reclaiming the Spiritual.

 We reference 2030 because it marks the end of the last decade of "normal." During 2030s the temperature deviation above pre-industrial levels will trigger increasingly devastating climate impacts: prolonged heatwaves, water scarcity, agricultural failure, desertification, and rising sea levels. The Earth's natural carbon sinks – oceans and forests - will begin to die. Mass migration will intensify, killing tens of millions while creating crisis conditions in the Global North and South that lead to political upheaval and in some cases, the collapse of state institutions.

 It's time to exit the house of delusions.  Join an alliance of the willing. Parallel Polis 2030 functions as an Autonomous Zone, a threshold space between today and transcendence, allowing us to confront the collapse of the carbon state and grow into radical humans. And also, as a process, learning to be in-the-zone, whereby the loss of self-consciousness in pursuit of transformation leads to the exclusion of negative thoughts and feelings. Human survival requires both.

To learn more, visit our websites for background information and references that encourage in-depth exploration.

Parallel Polis 2030: https://www.parallelpolis2030.org/

Radically Human: https://www.radicallyhuman.earth/

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