Solarpunk Mythos
At the intersection of solarpunk, psychological development, masculinity, and personal mythology.
A Caring Society - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 22
In this essay, I discuss the necessity of a caring society in the development of people capable of autonomous rationality and of pursuing justice. We take these capabilities for granted and then wonder why we're surrounded by people wholly incapable of what seems to us to be basic decency. What if we actually have to be educated to be able to be more ethical?
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Xenophilic Cultures of Trust and Care - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 21
In this essay, I discuss the Greek form of love known as "xenia", or the love of foreigners and guests. The more diverse a population becomes, the greater the demands for xenia in order to have enough coherence despite that plurality. With the internet, we have even greater blending of people that crosses the boundaries of any nation or culture, but also even less in-person contact with the people who we vote with.
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Placental Nihilism and Oily Bubbles - Reflections on Peter Sloterdijk's "Bubbles"
In this essay, I discuss Peter Sloterdijk's philosophical work, "Bubbles". A bubble is the relational space that includes two people. In the past, people have created bubbles that were rich with meaning, but such bubbles have become nihilistic spaces under capitalism. How might we re-enchant our bubbles and reinspire post-capitalist meaning?
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Social Status and Creepy Men - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 20
In this essay, I discuss how creepy men are often simply low status in an unjust hierarchy. Importantly then, high status men can often be far more deserving of the label "creepy", yet their unethical behaviour is ignored by people who crave their social status. When low status men are attractive, they become vehicles for the perpetuation of the unjust hierarchy that sets the terms of what's socially acceptably "attractive".
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Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates - Solarpunk Reflections
In this essay I discuss Laura Bates book "Men Who Hate Women" and discuss the problem of speaking up, whether that means against or for a certain group or individual. When we fail to speak, we are held accountable when we live in the world our inaction allowed. Yet, speaking must be both against something and FOR something.
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Technofeudalism and Integrated Capabilities - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 19
In this essay, I discuss how environments can force us to develop certain capabilities in order to survive. Once combined, these capabilities offer us access to new worlds, but also limit us to those worlds. How can we create a better society when our current society limits what we're capable of in order to survive?
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Solarpunk Psychology, 5Rhythms Dancing, and Social Identity’s Cages - dumb essay #2
To help frame this essay, my focus in my writing is on the psychology necessary to make solarpunk a reality. To create such a psychology we need to have an understanding of both the theory and practice behind it. Many people are engaged in political action or developmental practices like therapy, circling, dance, and other somatic/therapeutic practices that are incredibly powerful. Yet, what they miss out on is a theory that can adequately ground what they're doing in a narrative of change.
Solarpunk provides the aesthetic of an emerging narrative, and my work is to ground...
Circling into Solarpunk Culture - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 18
In this essay, I discuss how our culture of narcissism has reduced friendships to selfish transactions. I then discuss "circling" as a practice for developing the deep mutuality that can facilitate healthy friendship and culture. Circling is an interpersonal practice meant to cultivate emotional awareness, interpersonal care, and healthy boundaries.
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Masculinist Subjectivity and Anti-Masculinity - dumb essay #1
In this essay, I question the use of the term "masculinist" to denote subjectivities that privilege the masculine above the feminine. I first steelman the term by deconstructing Red Pill via the Kantian Society of Mind. I then titanium-man "masculinist" as "patriarchal", though with a sensitivity to context.
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How Can Men And Women Be Platonic Friends? - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 17
In this essay, I discuss the developmental process for how a misogynistic man who cannot be friends with women can become a man capable of being friends. While the thought may seem so grotesque, the fact is that there are men like this and far, far worse. The people who most need to change must not have the tools of change taken from them.
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Can Men and Women Be Platonic Friends? - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 16
In this essay, I question whether men and women can ever truly be "just" friends. Research seems to suggest that women can, but men can't. How can friendship work when so many men would fuck all their friends? Think about what this says about the limits to egalitarianism in a solarpunk culture.
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Solarpunk Halloween/Samhain - Capitalism, Alterity, and Transformation
In this essay, I deconstruct Halloween as an example of a mythos. A mythos includes a narrative with practices, rituals, and festivals that orient people within that narrative. Think about the story you tell yourself about what it means to be a citizen of your nation, and how national anthems, national holidays, and art inspire you to be proud of that national identity. Halloween is a very specific holiday with a very specific history and meaning that create a very specific identity. What might it look like in a solarpunk culture and what kind of identity do we want...
Why Are Platonic Friendships Important? - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 15
In this essay, I use platonic friendships as an example for how the self is created out of its relations with others. This may seem odd since I've been using romantic relations as a case study for the definition of a solarpunk self. Why are platonic friendships necessary for romance that can create us as ethical people?
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The Meta-Contextuality of the Self - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 14
In this essay I connect the dots I've been laying down over the last 13 essays. If the self is relational, created out of its relations with others and the world, then we have to reckon with the meta-contextuality of the self. We are created out of contexts that we create through the person we become across all contexts. There is ethical weight to that insight.
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The Necessity of Social Validation in Developing Autonomy - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 13
In this essay, I outline the movement from Expert to Achiever, and beyond. To grow out of conformity we must conform to Experts who represent our emerging ideal. That means that our ideal is intimately bound up with what our culture takes to be "expertise".
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From Conformity to Achievement - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 12
In this essay, I discuss the psychological development that occurs from Conformist to Individualist/Pluralist. I first outline what it means to be Conformist, how we become defined by a social identity. I then outline the movement away from conformity through experts that represent an emerging personal ideal.
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The Twisted Love of Phobos and Thanatos - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 11
In this essay, I discuss the twisted forms of love, phobos and thanatos. Phobos is the love of unhealthy aspiration that drives us to hate the "lower" parts of ourselves. Thanatos is the love of our current world's desires to the exclusion of any aspirational self. I then explore the sexual-romantic worlds opened up by these different forms of love in feminist and manosphere men.
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Sexual Consent and Erotic Agape - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 10
In this essay, I united the loves of eros and agape into the stance of erotic agape and the self as a student/teacher. As we interact, we are each of us students and teachers of each other. I then apply this to the problem of consent.
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The Agony of Eros - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 9
In this essay, I introduce eros as the creative love of self-transcending agency. In our development as human beings we must be called to learn and to grow, which requires the willingness to transcend who we currently are. This is not the love of consumption, but of aspiration.
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Agape and the Deservedness of Personhood - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 8
In this essay I introduce agape as the love of compassionate, educative hospitality for the student's flaws, faults, and mistakes. In producing solarpunk selves we need to be willing to make room for the imperfections of those we seek to change. Transformation is hard enough without punishing people for not already being where we demand they be.
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Aspirational Ecologies of Self-Development - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 7
In this essay, I discuss how self-development requires an ecology of practices that focus on multiple forms of development. I then talk about the philosophy of aspiration and define what an increase in complexity means.
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The Multiplicity of Solarpunk Selves - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 6
In this essay I go deeper into the notion that we are composed of parts. In understanding the solarpunk self we need to take these parts into consideration because they can be at different stages of development. If we, despite our usual behaviour, frequently do things that defy our best intentions, then we need to understand why these parts of us do what they do. This was inspired by Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the work of Richard Schwartz.
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The Flowering of the Solarpunk Self - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 5
In this essay, I discuss the philosophy of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Byung-Chul Han, and how they can help us understand how the solarpunk self emerges. What does it mean to relate to the other as Alter, and why does this actually matter?
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The Chrysalis and the Butterfly - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 4
In this essay, I continue my redefinition of the self in a solarpunk culture. We discuss the quality of relations using Martin Buber's distinction between "You" and "It", and then Levinas distinction between "totality" and "infinity". We apply it to the concept of the sexual citizen, using that as our case study for defining ethical relations. As Levinas and Beauvoir say, the sexual relation is exemplary of the ethical.
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Atomized Selves and Solarpunk Dividuals - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 3
In this essay, I continue the deconstruction of the neoliberal individual, the self-interested, autonomous, rational actor we are all expected to be. I then introduce the notion of the relational dividual, or a conception of the self that takes itself to be created out of its relationships and so focuses on the ethical quality of relation.
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Solarpunk Selves Aren't Liberal Individuals - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 2
In this essay, I begin to contrast the solarpunk self with the notion of the liberal individual, the autonomous, rational actor that we are all assumed to be. What does it mean to expect people to be liberal individuals when many of these capacities must be developed toward? What happens when we fail to educate people in those capacities?
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Solarpunk Selves and Sexual Ethics - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 1
In this essay, I begin defining a solarpunk self as a relational self, or one created out of its relations with others and the world. Given the egalitarianism of solarpunk, we need relations that are ethical, and according to Beauvoir and Levinas, the sexual relation is exemplary of the ethical. As such, I use heterosexual relationships as a case study for the definition of the solarpunk self.
You can find this essay on Substack, with references, here - Solarpunk Selves and Sexual Ethics - by Will Cameron
A Solarpunk Mythos - An Aspirational Vision of the Future
In this essay, I introduce a new direction for the channel. We're going to start focusing on solarpunk and the psychological development we need to get there.
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Does Becoming an “Alpha” Stop Men from Becoming Adults? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 9
In this essay, I introduce the concept of sexual geography and how it can help us understand how a lack of sexual communion, or other-interested care, can manifest. If pickup artistry teaches sexual agency without communion, then we can see how quickly problems might emerge.
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Why Are Most Adults Not Ready For Dating? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 8
In this essay, I introduce Hirsch and Kahn's concept of sexual citizenship and how it reveals the radical idea that most adults do not meet the criteria. What are the consequences of having a population of adults who fail to meet the demands for citizenship?
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Do women like psychopaths? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 7
In this essay I discuss findings that Dark Triad men tend to have the highest number of sexual partners. If this is the case, can we really create a post-patriarchal pickup artistry? To answer this question we consider game acceptance, game denial, and game change.
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Why Do Women Like Bad Men? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 6
In this essay I discuss the bodyguard hypothesis, which states that women will choose dominant men who will protect them from other men. I then explore the implications of this hypothesis on the horizon of romantic possibility.
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Are Pickup Artist Theories True? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 5
In this essay I address the big question everyone has about pickup artistry, are their theories actually true? To answer this we have to understand the nature of theory itself much more deeply. How do our theories shape our experiences and define our interpretations of those experiences?
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Predatory Men or Romantic Misinterpretation? - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 4
In this essay I talk about how the romantic game of man the pursuer and woman the pursued leads to romantic misinterpretations. This turns this game into man the predator and woman the victim. Find out why this happens and what we can start doing about it.
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I Suck At Talking To Girls - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 3
In this essay I introduce the fundamental premise of pickup artistry as, "I suck at talking to women, and I want to learn how so that they are excited about the possibility of sex or romance with me."
I then introduce one of the most popular romantic games - man the pursuer, woman the pursued - and how it can reinforce beliefs about man the predator and woman the victim. Given the fundamental premise of pickup, you can likely see how even that positive premise can begin to go awry when its placed within such a...
Giving Men Grace - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 2
In this video I continue my reconstruction of pickup artistry by addressing the fact that men are not often given grace for their struggles in dating. We are often framed as villains for not knowing how to flirt, but then not given any real education. Is it any wonder when we seek help from the very same men who cause many of the problems that women vilify all men for?
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The Problem of Creepy Men - Reconstructing Pickup Artistry, Part 1
I’ve struggled with social anxiety my entire life—sometimes so intensely that even walking into a party could trigger dissociation or a panic attack. So, how are men like me supposed to navigate dating, flirting, and romance in today’s world?
According to Alex of Date Psych, over 50% of men haven’t approached a woman in the past year, and 86% report being single due to poor flirting skills. Yet, 77% of women aged 18–30 say they want to be approached more often. Clearly, something deeper is going on beneath the surface of modern dating culture.
A Case Against Pickup Artists - The Machinery of Seduction
Pickup artistry promises to turn lonely, awkward men into charismatic “alpha males” who can attract beautiful women. But what if the real machinery behind pickup isn’t empowerment, but a system that dehumanizes intimacy, reduces women to technical problems, and traps men in a cycle of conformity and shame?
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Creating Ex-Red Pill Men - How To Change Minds
When was the last time you truly changed your mind?
Not just swapping one opinion for another—but having your entire worldview disrupted, forcing you to reimagine who you are and the kind of life you want to live. In this video, I explore the psychology of worldview change—why it’s so hard, how our beliefs shape (and blind) us, and what it really takes to break free from ideological traps like Red Pill and toxic self-improvement culture.
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Masculinity, Sexual Polarity, and Personal Development - A Conversation With Dani Banchev
In this conversation, Dani Banchev and I talk about masculinity through the lenses of sexual polarity, psychological development, masculine and feminine energy, and meta-ideological perspectives.
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The Inner Compass Blueprint to Authentic Autonomy:
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