I hope this is a good place for this since I’m not sure what other community would be for this, nor who I could talk to about this. Lately, I’m becoming more concerned about AI among other things and I have been looking for movements against this stuff going on. It also has me questioning whether or not it will be a good idea to create a community about this on here since I can’t seem to find any community that it would fit in.
To try to keep my mind off things, I have been going into groups for Faerie and Wicca beliefs to focus my thoughts on woodland mysteries and things like that, and someone brought up something about keeping the magick alive for little ones mentioning the use of tiny letters. That got me thinking one of those letters can be saying, “Since the beginning of time, we have been the guardians and the healers of the forest. You have too long forgotten the magic powers of nature. The time has come for you to call on them again, and remember, all the magic of creation exists within one single tiny seed. Help it to grow.”, and comes inside a tiny envelope containing a lot of seeds that could get a child to feel bad, concerned, and want to reconnect with the woodlands.
I feel this may lead to the child gaining an affinity for the color green, an interest in green colored dresses and brown booties, and perhaps wanting to become a child of the forest. This also got me thinking about the story that I have been writing, that is about a few kids who are feeling they are out of a place within a technological nightmare world, and are also getting a calling sensation to go into the woodlands. As they leave home and venture to the woods, they notice a number of the trees look like they are withering and dying which makes them concerned.
This soon leads them through a cave passage into a world which appears to be somewhere in the 1800s where they meet a group of kids who have a hideout above an abandoned pawnshop like place. They find out more things there, continue their venture into the woods there, and through a faerie gateway that takes them to another world that is stuck in medieval times with little to no technology to be seen. This world has an older Legend of Zelda/Lord of the Rings feel to it even though its still a work in progress.
Oh, and I also had started to plan and put together a video series that focuses on an elf girl named Lindsey who escapes out into the forest from her foster mom, and it kind of becomes similar to a scavenger hunt to locate certain things. As I try to focus on these things, something I see somewhere tends to cause me to be increasing worried about certain technologies.
Anyway, the idea behind a few of these projects is to show things that appear to be getting forgotten, and to attempt to get children weaned off of phones and tablets that are causing the outdoors and wilderness to be forgotten, and to get rid of the garbage as well as the enshittification being brought on by greed. I’m currently wondering if I should look into setting up a community for discussions on this, though I currently don’t know what to call it.
Hi, I did think about posting it to [email protected] before I posted here, but I was afraid there might be a risk of it becoming seen as a controversial topic such as becoming a political or a societal debate and didn’t want to risk being in violation of that rule over there. If you think I’m not going to be, I can post this topic over there to try to encourage discussion on it.
Reading your whole post again, I think it might be indeed a bit “out of space”, not because it’s political or societal, but more because it about “how to deal with our current environment, and projects that can help with this”
It’s actually an interesting topic, maybe one community that comes to mind is [email protected], you can have a look and see if you think it would fit.
Yeah, my topic is basically about ideas on how to deal with our current environment and projects that can help with this including venturing into the woods to reconnect with them, but also some other things that are included such as medieval fantasy based story writing, a video series project which takes place mostly in the woods and can include a scavenger hunt to search for and find a number of certain things, etc. which would be much better for young people than staying indoors and constantly on tablets and phones. This can also help reconnect with natural magics and show things that are on the verge of becoming forgotten in favor of thinking that the next best thing is better, when that may not be the case as it leads to enshittification, such as the degradation which can be seen via remakes of Cartoon and TV Series, the increase in pollution, and internet sites that are going to shit with so many ads an enshittification.
My aim is to hopefully open and encourage discussion on this and about how it might be better to move away from a number of technologies and find happiness being outside, in the wilderness, and mystical places, and to look at what certain kinds of technologies may be doing to us, what needs to be rejected to regain happiness, and also what or who we are fueling by being lured into getting the next best technical thing that hits the market and where their interest lies, and are they trustworthy or are they very greedy. The idea is basically like looking at things that existed decades or longer ago that are becoming forgotten, what did we walk away from while being lured into something else we think is better when it might not be, and what feels like would be a good idea to bring back into the mainstream.
Anyway, I did take a look in [email protected] and I’m not one-hundred percent about that being the right place for this. Probably would need to check with @[email protected] about that, even though this currently has me thinking a new community may need to be made for it.