本期节目探讨了“Doomer Optimism”这一新兴的社会运动。嘉宾Ashley Colby和Jason Snyder讨论了该运动的起源、核心价值观以及如何平衡哲学思考与实际行动。他们认为，Doomer Optimism是一种应对绝望和乐观主义的哲学，它鼓励人们在面对挑战的同时，积极采取行动，建立地方性社区，并发展技能，以应对未来可能的社会转型。

🤔 **Doomer Optimism的起源与核心价值观:** Doomer Optimism起源于对当今社会困境的反思，它既不沉溺于绝望，也不盲目乐观。该运动的核心价值观包括对社会现状的清醒认识、对未来可能发生的社会转型做好准备、积极参与地方性社区建设、发展技能以及培养应对挑战的能力。

💪 **Doomer Optimism的实践：** Doomer Optimism的实践者们积极参与地方性社区建设，发展技能，并探索更可持续的生活方式。例如，Ashley Colby是一位研究乡村自给自足农业的社会学家，她认为自给自足农业可以成为一种抵抗晚期资本主义和气候灾难的革命性行为。Jason Snyder则是一位在阿巴拉契亚山区进行自给自足生活的实践者，他认为通过发展地方性社区和自给自足能力，可以构建更具韧性和可持续的社会体系。

🌍 **Doomer Optimism的意义：** Doomer Optimism是一种应对社会挑战的积极哲学，它鼓励人们在面对困境时，保持清醒的头脑，并积极采取行动，共同构建更美好的未来。该运动强调个人行动的力量，并鼓励人们在地方层面上建立社区，发展技能，并探索更可持续的生活方式。

🌱 **Doomer Optimism的未来：** Doomer Optimism是一个新兴的社会运动，它正在吸引越来越多的关注。该运动的未来发展将取决于其能否有效地将哲学思考与实际行动结合起来，并建立起一个强大的社区网络。

🤝 **Doomer Optimism的意义：** Doomer Optimism强调了个人行动的重要性，并鼓励人们在地方层面上建立社区，发展技能，并探索更可持续的生活方式。它为应对社会挑战提供了一种新的视角，并鼓励人们积极参与构建更美好的未来。

Jim talks with Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder about the growing movement of Doomer Optimism...Jim talks with Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder about the growing movement of Doomer Optimism. They discuss Ashley's coinage of the term, doomer optimism as an open-source structure of feeling, avoiding pathologies of despair & naive optimism, balancing philosophy with action, cosmopolitan localism, healthy skepticism, theory-of-change pluralism, building local capacity toward the meso-scale, the social power of skill-building, Tucker Max's surprise embrace of the movement & what to do when movements take unexpected turns, doomer optimism's mainstream potential, recentering the hard-won knowledge of longtime homesteaders & builders, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP122 - Ashley Colby on Subsistence Agriculture Doomer Optimist Podcast Doomer Optimist Substack "A Journey to GameB," by Jim Rutt "The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets," by Joe Lightfoot Both/And Podcast "Doomer Optimism: What I See Coming, & How I'm Preparing," by Tucker MaxAshley Colby is an Environmental Sociologist who studied at Washington State University. In her book she explores subsistence food production as a potentially revolutionary act. She is interested in and passionate about the myriad creative ways in which people are forming new social worlds in resistance to the failures of late capitalism and resultant climate disasters. Ashley is a qualitative researcher, so she tends to focus on the informal spaces of innovation. She is now focused on doing anything she can to foment local, decentralized networks of people who can get us to the next iteration of society, and fast.Dr. Jason Snyder has an educational background in applied economics and geography, and is currently teaching in the Department of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University with a special interest in local food systems. He is also a beginning homesteader in the Appalachian hills, a meditation enthusiast, a podcaster (Both/And, Doomer Optimism), and a proponent of societal transition towards a more resilient and regenerative system state.