{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast","title":"Crossing the Uncanny Chasm from where we are to where we need to be – Thoughts from the Edge #6 with Manda Scott","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3099,"description":"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?\nWe 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 -\n - not working a day job\n - not paying rent/mortgage/power/water/food bills\n - not trapped in the death cult of predatory capitalism\n - everyone was working cooperatively for food, health, technology\n - the bad guys were out there, but they were losing.\nIt was lovely - if you don't mind the fact that we were basically subsisting and not necessarily meeting our core needs.\nand\nIt was blindingly depressing.\nBecause 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?\nSo this podcast is working past this Uncanny Chasm - starting the hard work of figuring out the details.\nThere will be more.  This is just a start.  All thoughts welcome.\nLinks\nDemocracy in Chains my Nancy MacLean\nHostage Nation by Jamie Driscoll\nRichard Murphy's YouTube\n—About Accidental Gods—\n\nWe offer three strands all rooted in the same soil, drawing from the same river: Accidental Gods, Dreaming Awake and the Thrutopia Writing Masterclass \nOur next Open Gathering offered as part of our Accidental Gods Programme is 'DREAMING YOUR DEATH AWAKE' which will run on Sunday 1st November 2026 from 16:00 - 20:00 GMT (NOTE THE TIME! - We'll be out of summertime then)  - details are here. You don't have to be a member of Accidental Gods to come along, but if you are, all Gatherings are half price.\n\nIf you'd...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2fOWMRnTk9Jq1cMNEdZ2P6L9hSacKWpQNA4zTc1F1F4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNjRl/ZmU1NTg1MWQ2NmFl/MzkzZGIzNjlhYTU4/OTM0NS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}