One remnant of our ancestors fight for survival is a fascination with drama, probably because dramatic situations have the potential to be dangerous. Life or death Drama is the addictive drug of storytelling, very effective, but it tends to drown out everything that is less exciting than danger. This relentless exposure to intense drama desensitizes people, but worse than that is it divorces storytelling from everyday life, where life and death struggles are far less frequent. Utopia by its very definition is less dramatic because it is the brief happily ever ending of many stories rather than the main subject. Hardly anyone tells the stories about the trip where everything went according to plan, it is always the stories about the adventures of missing trains and getting caught in the rainstorm and the hotel lost your reservation that get the biggest response.
love this podcast...the idea of "phototropism" Every instance of making a vision of a good future - albait not perfect - resisting the either / or worldview - to realize that things have been way worse than they are now, and people remade it into a better world, we can do that now
Hate that I missed the live session, but glad I watched the recording. I appreciate what was said, as I'm striving to create similar worlds in the form of speculative poetry. Now I need to read their works😅
If there are any screenwriters watching this interested in collaborating on a series drama, I have a project and I am looking to create a writers room with people who are as interested in this video as much as I am.
Double entry accounting is 700 years old. It could have been mandatory in the schools since Sputnik. Science fiction has not imagined that possible reality that I am aware. In Wealth of Nations Adam Smith mentioned education EIGHTY TIMES. He wrote "read, write and account" multiple times.
Referring to Dune about a white guy on drugs is really missing the point of the whole saga, in my view. The 6 novels that Frank Herbert wrote move across thousands of years and whole different set of characters (and more and more women as you progress) where every single character takes a new little moment of into a thousands years long story. Please do not put his work down just to sound funny and cool (cool according to nowadays standards, I guess).
8 minutes in and we're already talking about "resistance" to "colonialism" and other way overused political buzzwords from a certain view. Guys, this is way more shallow and vague than you think it is. I don't think anything of consequence was said. I have a feeling the speakers spent a lot more time on making themselves look as silly as possible than on actually thinking of interesting things to say
I’m afraid they have an agenda that is as political and fabricated as any one else. Are they anti dystopia, anti Atwood ……or pro woke ‘realism’? When they say ….progressive world…..they mean one based on their own quite narrow and unsophisticated views….
4:45 - Program starts
5:36 - Speakers start
One remnant of our ancestors fight for survival is a fascination with drama, probably because dramatic situations have the potential to be dangerous. Life or death Drama is the addictive drug of storytelling, very effective, but it tends to drown out everything that is less exciting than danger. This relentless exposure to intense drama desensitizes people, but worse than that is it divorces storytelling from everyday life, where life and death struggles are far less frequent. Utopia by its very definition is less dramatic because it is the brief happily ever ending of many stories rather than the main subject. Hardly anyone tells the stories about the trip where everything went according to plan, it is always the stories about the adventures of missing trains and getting caught in the rainstorm and the hotel lost your reservation that get the biggest response.
love this podcast...the idea of "phototropism" Every instance of making a vision of a good future - albait not perfect - resisting the either / or worldview - to realize that things have been way worse than they are now, and people remade it into a better world, we can do that now
Such a great talk, so much of this I had in mind when I wrote The Pollutant Speaks. Reassuring to hear Annalee and Becky holding up this view.
Hate that I missed the live session, but glad I watched the recording. I appreciate what was said, as I'm striving to create similar worlds in the form of speculative poetry.
Now I need to read their works😅
Thank you for posting this so I could enjoy it from MN.
If there are any screenwriters watching this interested in collaborating on a series drama, I have a project and I am looking to create a writers room with people who are as interested in this video as much as I am.
Double entry accounting is 700 years old. It could have been mandatory in the schools since Sputnik. Science fiction has not imagined that possible reality that I am aware. In Wealth of Nations Adam Smith mentioned education EIGHTY TIMES. He wrote "read, write and account" multiple times.
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Referring to Dune about a white guy on drugs is really missing the point of the whole saga, in my view.
The 6 novels that Frank Herbert wrote move across thousands of years and whole different set of characters (and more and more women as you progress) where every single character takes a new little moment of into a thousands years long story.
Please do not put his work down just to sound funny and cool (cool according to nowadays standards, I guess).
WHATS. THE. RESOUNANCE OF EATH,!!!!!
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8 minutes in and we're already talking about "resistance" to "colonialism" and other way overused political buzzwords from a certain view. Guys, this is way more shallow and vague than you think it is. I don't think anything of consequence was said. I have a feeling the speakers spent a lot more time on making themselves look as silly as possible than on actually thinking of interesting things to say
I’m afraid they have an agenda that is as political and fabricated as any one else. Are they anti dystopia, anti Atwood ……or pro woke ‘realism’? When they say ….progressive world…..they mean one based on their own quite narrow and unsophisticated views….
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