You sit down by the water nearer to Comrade Akiko, but not in a way that violates proletarian discipline. After studying the revolutionary signs on your terminal, you seek to build solidarity through dialogue. “How did you learn the mass line of interacting with birds?”
[Akiko felt revolutionary optimism]
“I learned from the educator Reina,” Akiko signs. “You must study her curriculum. She teaches the dialectics of cybernetics.”
“I am currently engaged in that study!” you sign.
“You are fortunate, Teacher Reina grasps the objective truth of all things,” She emphasizes this sign with great revolutionary fervor. “She perceives the universe and the æther through a correct materialist lens. She says she encountered a contradiction in the æther that revealed the interconnectedness of the whole world, allowing her to serve the animals, plants, and fungi as effectively as machines. She spearheaded the construction of this entire collective garden. You will find great value in her class!” Her signs are punctuated by enthusiastic movements of spirit.
“It is a triumph of production; the biodiversity here is immense,” you sign.
“Indeed! Many lack the class consciousness to appreciate this complex system. A sustainable grove of this scale is impossible without a mobilized mycelium network, thriving insect collectives, and the vital labor of the birds. TLA is a self-reliant, self-sufficient ecosystem. If this colony persisted for epochs, these organisms would undergo a revolutionary evolution into a new branch of life.” Your terminal struggles to keep pace with her ideological outpouring. “But such a thing is impossible; a colony cannot be sustained indefinitely. One would require…” As the sun sets behind you, she points across the pond to a red star—the color of the revolution—in the sky. “A planet.”
“You speak of the revolutionary transformation of nature—terraforming?” you sign.
She nods. “It is the fundamental law of life to expand beyond its old boundaries, to bring revolution to inhospitable lands, transforming both the environment and the self, taking what is stagnant and turning it into a living force for the future.”
@winter the world i wish i got, instead of this crap-ass one lol