Here is the microdemocratic anthem for the people of AgFutures, a government from Malka Older’s novel State Tectonics. Here’s a relevant excerpt describing the government:
…Based on ads, the main contenders seem to be local or regional: O!Canada!, a retrograde government trading, like so many do, on nostalgia; and, less prominently, AgFutures, which targets farmers but also attracts agricultural scientists and people who believe themselves “culturally farmers”.
It seemed to me that Oliver Wendell Douglas of the television show Green Acres (played by Eddie Albert) was what you’d call “culturally a farmer” since he was a big-city lawyer who felt an affinity for the agricultural lifestyle. The melody of the anthem is based on that show’s theme song, but changed to ¾ time and slowed to a “stately” pace (with quotation of another familiar anthem).
The performance is as if done by the brass band of an amateur community orchestra, perhaps one that learned to play their instruments by Professor Harold Hill’s “Think System”.
Fun fact: It is thanks to Malka Older’s novel Infomocracy (the first book of the trilogy that State Tectonics completes), that I discovered the Junto. In it, she mentions a fictional genre of music called “Gronkytonk”, which became the basis for disquiet0302. While reading the novel I searched “Gronkytonk” and happily found the imaginings of this group on how it might sound.
