Crossing the Uncanny Chasm from where we are to where we need to be – Thoughts from the Edge #6 with Manda Scott
What are the actual steps we could take, from our dysfunctional political, economic, media systems and all they support – towards a future that would actually work in service to life?
We ask this question all the time on the podcast – and then…
…I went away for a weekend’s planning with the core team of our Thrutopian Convergence. We played a Solar Punk Futures game (thank you Natalia!) and Every Single One of us crafted a fictional character from a post-collapse semi-dystopian future in which we were all –
– not working a day job
– not paying rent/mortgage/power/water/food bills
– not trapped in the death cult of predatory capitalism
– everyone was working cooperatively for food, health, technology
– the bad guys were out there, but they were losing.
It was lovely
and
It was blindingly depressing.
Because if I fall into this easy/lazy/safe way of thinking – if I, too, am unable to see past the fuzzy, hand-waving bits of detail that get us from here to there – the bit I’m calling the Uncanny Chasm – how can I expect anyone else to see them more clearly?
So this podcast is working past this Uncanny Chasm – starting the hard work of figuring out the details.
There will be more. This is just a start. All thoughts welcome.
Thoughts from the Edge #6
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