INSIST ON UTOPIAS!

We must insist on utopias.

We must insist on seeing, tasting, feeling, being life-affirming futures.

We must insist on utopias until we are drenched in liberatory realities. Until every corner of our consciousness is glistening, refracting, splashing vibrant possibilities across our collective imagination.

Until possibilities become probabilities become inevitabilities.

We must make a place for utopia: A home on the horizon.
Through our conviction, we must draw the horizon to shore.
We must make rooms and build wings in our memory palaces, our discourses, our superhero-scale tales, for a multitude of utopias to live into.

We must insist upon utopias in the plural.
We must explore and expound in a chorus of ever-evolving possibilities. From every angle and perspective, we must insist upon possibility until it reverberates: Through different body-temples and innerscapes, across lineages and languages, in contemporary cosmologies and ancestories.

If utopia has no-place, we must practice place-making within consciousness.

We must remember that no place is known until we make it so.
Through wandering and witnessing, we must map the inevitable.

We must note — and feel — the absence of utopic possibilities.
We must grieve freedom dreams gone unseen. In remembrance, we must commit and recommit ourselves daily to the work of visionary worldbuilding.

We must understand dystopia as a demiurgic distraction from the essential work of visionary worldbuilding. We must starve dystopic vision.

Art is the work of shaping consciousness — that of the artist’s, and the heart receiving the art. Collective consciousness in turn shapes material reality. Possibilities become probabilities become inevitabilities.

When we articulate utopic vision across mediums, dimensions, and locales, the collective consciousness is primed to create life-affirming material realities.

Suspend disbelief. Insist on utopias now.