{"id":5945,"date":"2024-05-02T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2024-04-27T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:52:08","slug":"qa-with-manda-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/qa-with-manda-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A with Manda Scott<\/span>Manda Scott<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Firstly, many congratulations on <\/em>Any Human Power \u2013 what an extraordinary, multi-layered, wild and ultimately hopeful read. It\u2019s described as Thrutopian fiction \u2013 could you explain what that is, and how the concept of Thrutopia first came about?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thank you \u2013 this is always a good place to start.\u00a0 The word \u2018Thrutopia\u2019 came from an article by Prof Rupert Read, an XR activist and now one of the co-founders of the Climate Majority Project. He published this article in Huffington Post in 2017<\/a>. When I had the shamanic visions that led to AHP, part of the understanding was that if I hadn\u2019t been hosting Accidental Gods podcast for several years by then, I\u2019d have had no clue where to start in crafting a route map through from exactly where we are to a future we\u2019d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 which is my most succinct definition of Thrutopian writing.<\/p>\n

    So my partner, Faith, and I set up a Masterclass for writers to garner the ideas that might seed other writing \u2013 and Rupert was one of the first people I invited. He sent me a link to the article and agreed that we could use the word \u2018Thrutopia\u2019 for the Masterclass \u2013 and beyond. There is now a Thrutopia Writers Association and we\u2019re endeavouring to create a whole new genre.<\/p>\n

    Crucially there\u2019s a distinction between this and dystopias, which are, in my view lazy (anyone can glance down the timelines and imagine how the world might be if we let loose the worse instincts of humanity. It takes a lot more imagination and creative scope to think what might happen if we let loose the best); more importantly they don\u2019t work<\/em>. If showing\/telling people how bad things could get if we don\u2019t act were going to change our value systems and behaviour in any material way, we wouldn\u2019t be where we are.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter how good the writing, how clear the statistics\u2026 it\u2019s not how human neurophysiology works and, as we all know, trying the same thing time after time and expecting a different result is not wise. Or clever. Or useful.<\/p>\n

    We also don\u2019t need utopias<\/em>, which jump ahead to a miraculous time when everything is different. They can scope out better ways of being, but unless we can see a route to getting there, I don\u2019t see them as part of the solution (or at least, not the part we need most).<\/p>\n

    So, expanding slightly, Thrutopian thinking\/writing\/creating maps a viable, grounded, plausible route from where we are, through to a future we\u2019d be proud to leave to future generations<\/em>. And I think it\u2019s urgent.<\/p>\n

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    1. The thread of shamanic dreaming runs all the way through the book. Knowing that your practice is at the core of so much of your writing \u2013 I\u2019m particularly thinking of your wonderful Boudica series \u2013 Any Human Power feels incredibly personal, as though you\u2019ve woven your life into every page. Could you expand on the dreaming and how it informed the writing of Any Human Power?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Thank you again, though this is harder: expanding on the dreaming is difficult unless we can establish a common language. At heart, I view shamanic spirituality as the original core spirituality of humanity that connected us to the web of life throughout our history \u2013 which is to say at least 300,000 years. For most of this time we were fully aware that we were an integral, essential part of the web of life of the planet.\u00a0 This is what Frances Weller describes as an \u2018Initiation Culture\u2019 <\/a>\u00a0– where individuals undergo \u2018contained encounters with death\u2019, the very containment of which\u2014by the elders, the tribe, the land, the rituals, the web-of-life itself\u2014allows and encourages growth.<\/p>\n

      Our western, capitalist, colonial culture, which Weller describes as a \u2018Trauma Culture\u2019, lacks this containment and so our encounters with death are not held, are not recognised and celebrated, are not woven with kindness and respect into the threads of our life. Unless we\u2019re supremely lucky, we encounter them in isolation, suffer them and their fallout alone and are frequently expected to behave as though they never happened.\u00a0 This is the separation, scarcity and powerlessness that underlies the death cult of predatory capitalism.\u00a0 So my lifelong question has been \u2013 how do we reconnect with the gods of the land? And now, reading Weller, this has transmuted to, \u2018How can we craft a new Initiation Culture from the crumbling debris of the death cult?\u2019<\/p>\n

      My answer is contemporary shamanic practice, knowing that it\u2019s a pale shadow of true indigenous practices, but nonetheless believing that it offers us connection and coherence; that it allows us to live in a world of community, sufficiency and agency, and to rediscover our birthright as integral parts of the More-than-Human world.\u00a0 This is a lifetime\u2019s practice, but when we do reconnect, we can ask \u2018what do you want of me?\u2019 and respond to authentic answers in real time. This takes a lot of work. We have to let go of layers upon layers of projection and there are no shortcuts, but it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

      So\u2026 shamanic practice, for me, is an essential component of our conscious evolution and our conscious evolution is how we grow into what we need to be to make it through the meta-crisis.\u00a0 I hope this makes sense.<\/p>\n

      Having established a common language \u2013 or at least established my use of language \u2013 the book arose from and was supported\/driven by, the dreaming (aka my spiritual practice).\u00a0 The story of how the book arose is too long for here, but I blogged about it here<\/a>. The short version is that I thought I\u2019d stopped writing \u2013 the publishing cycle was just too long to have relevance and was focusing on the podcast instead as a way of spreading ideas of what\u2019s actually happening<\/em> at the inter-becoming edge of emergence.<\/p>\n

      Then the push came to write, with the seed kernel of the book and it became urgent, to the exclusion of almost everything else. The Thrutopia Masterclass we talk about below was crucial and the podcast continued, but it pushed pretty much everything else to the back burner.\u00a0 Then the writing and the editing were all driven by continual connection with all that supports the dreaming. I couldn\u2019t do it otherwise, but to describe the actual process is hard. I ask questions and listen for the answers in all the ways I know how. And be ready to make mistakes. The key is to recognise when I\u2019ve gone down a wrong path and to throw stuff away, ask the question again and rewrite. There was (always is) lots and lots and lots of rewriting.\u00a0 The result feels like the original dream, which is what matters.<\/p>\n

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      1. We all know how powerful story is for the human consciousness, both at an individual and at a higher cultural level \u2013 how important a role do you think Thrutopia has in changing the collective beliefs about the climate emergency?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        I think Thrutopian thinking\/creating is absolutely, totally and completely essential. I think that given where we are, there is nothing more important.\u00a0 I\u2019d quote Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement<\/em> where he said, \u2018When future generations look back upon the Great Derangement, they will certainly blame the leaders and politicians of this time for their failure to address the climate crisis. But they may well hold artists and writers to be equally culpable – for the imagining of possibilities is not, after all, the job of politicians and bureaucrats.<\/em>\u2019 (italics are mine).<\/p>\n

        I\u2019d go further and say that if the politicians and bureaucrats of our time were capable of changing the system they wouldn\u2019t keep their jobs for more than about a nano-second.\u00a0 The system exists to perpetuate the system<\/em>. And the system is a wholly owned subsidiary of the death cult.\u00a0 Woody Guthrie is quoted as saying that \u2018Politics is the entertainment arm of the military industrial complex\u2019 which is a way of saying the same thing.<\/p>\n

        It\u2019s not the job of the people in power to imagine different ways of being. That\u2019s our job. And it\u2019s urgent. I\u2019m becoming pretty hard-core on this. I\u2019d say quite clearly to my fellow writers\/creatives that anyone writing anything \u2013 crime thrillers, romances, SF\/Fantasy, solar punk, YA, non-fiction, poetry, song lyrics, blogs, Tik-Tok video scripts, whatever\u2026 needs urgently to be exploring how we build a new value set, how we cast our ghost-trails across the pathways of tomorrow and then get enough people to walk them that they become good, solid paths\u2026<\/p>\n

        Anything else is not only a waste of time, it\u2019s propaganda propping up a dying system and we don\u2019t need more of that. Imagine a world where every<\/em> Hollywood or Netflix producer could only get hold of Thrutopian scripts. Nothing else. They\u2019d have to make Thrutopian TV. Publishers would have to publish Thrutopian novels, cookery books, ghost-written biographies of footballers\u2026 Media moguls would only have comment-pieces that crafted new visions of a collective value set that explicitly took us forward to what we could be rather than iterations of what we have been. Just imagine.\u00a0 Then we need to make it happen.<\/p>\n

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        1. The book is pretty out there in terms of radical ideas and the bending of genres. Did you have any pushback with editors\/publishers with this? Did you have to \u2018sell\u2019 it in a different way?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I think this is the value of having a history of having written traditional (ish) things first.\u00a0 We did change publisher, but it was entirely amicable on both sides. My current publisher is the first and only one we approached and I am genuinely beyond happy with the editorial input \u2013 which can make or break any book \u2013 and with all the teamwork since. \u00a0This is what I dreamed of and the reality is matching the dream, which doesn\u2019t always happen by any means.<\/p>\n

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          1. In your article for Mslexia – \u2018Why We Need a New Genre\u2019 \u2013 you spoke about a need for a home for Thrutopia in the publishing industry, and a desire to start an imprint or publishing house dedicated to supporting this genre. Now that you have finished your book, are you thinking of turning your eye to this?\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            Definitely.\u00a0 Some of the stalwarts of the Thrutopia Masterclass have gathered together and we\u2019re forming a nascent Thrutopia Writers Association \u2013 holding meetings in the sociocratic frame and considering how to bring together a couple of anthologies, as well as other ways to promote the concept.<\/p>\n

            In the meantime Permaculture Magazine published a series of five Thrutopian Articles spanning the past 18 months, and these expanded on the ideas in far greater depth than anything I\u2019d written before. They are being pulled into an anthology of Transformative Adaptation writing to be published by Permanent Press which is a really good start.\u00a0 Beyond this, I\u2019m shaping the concept of a collection of writing from other writers who are far bigger names than I am \u2013 if they are interested, which of course they may not be.\u00a0 This is the key: who\u2019s interested in joining this? Who is ready to be part of the future and who is still locked in the category error of the past?<\/p>\n

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            1. Which writers do you take inspiration from? <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Too many to list, probably.\u00a0 Natasha Pulley is my current absolute favourite \u2013 she has to be one of the best writers of our generation. Ditto Claire North, Rachel Neumeier, Victoria Goddard, Katherine Addison, NK Jemisin, Ned Beauman\u2026 I\u2019m really interested in people who explore alternative ways of being and who have the capacity to shape beautiful, breath-takingly gorgeous sentences. \u00a0\u00a0I read more non-fiction than fiction these days, and am completely in awe of Kate Raworth, Jason Hickel, Marjorie Kelly, Nicole Civita and Michelle Auerbach\u2026anyone and everyone who\u2019s writing ways to a future we\u2019d be proud to leave behind. That said, most of my inspiration comes from podcasts, and those are way, way too many to list.<\/p>\n

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              1. In the novel, the question is asked: \u2018What would you die to defend?\u2019 Where do you stand on this?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                I am wholly of the opinion that our conscious evolution takes us through, by and into a non-violent future \u2013 that violence is the tool of the dying paradigm and we both cannot and must not use it. Everyone who has used violence to craft change has ended up emulating the worst excesses of the system they were so desperate to replace.<\/p>\n

                So this line was written as a way to create a particular dramatic tension. Having written the stories of women and men who died to defend ideas and ideologies as well as family, tribe and an entire way of life, I\u2019d say none of us can really know the answer to this until or unless the time comes.<\/p>\n

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                1. I was fascinated by the use of technology I\u2019d never even heard of \u2013 fiscal transparency, the catamaran. Does this tech already exist? And do you see AI as a potential ally in systemic change?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  I\u2019m with Audrey Tang on this<\/a>: technology both can and must be used in service of our conscious evolution. Tang doesn\u2019t say this explicitly, but is on the record implicitly and, far more to the point, is using it in what I consider to be Thrutopian ways towards Thrutopian ends on the ground in Taiwan as we speak. \u00a0There is so much potential for the decent, sane, intentional use of technology if we can establish a value system based in empathy, trust and connection.<\/p>\n

                  Beyond this, as I said in the notes at the end of the book, Raye\u2019s catamaran doesn\u2019t exist that I know of, but I pulled the technology from a bunch of other sources that do exist and I see no reason why they couldn\u2019t have built it as described.<\/p>\n

                  Everything else was predicated on ideas that are already out there. With their permission, I borrowed the concept of a Future Guardian Governance Model from Riversimple in Wales<\/a>, where shareholders do have a say in how the company is run, but their input is limited to one speaker in a group of six, and the other five are: the local community, the environment, the workers, the customers and the supply chain. In the book we add a seventh for future generations and it becomes a job-share, but even as it is, if every company in the world were to transition to this model tomorrow, we\u2019d wake up to a different world the day after. Imagine working for a company where you as a worker have a say in who represents you, where every meeting is transparent and where you have a right of recall if your representative is not speaking for you fairly \u2013 how would you feel? How would the narratives of your workplace change?<\/p>\n

                  Imagine living in an area where you have a say in how local businesses treat your community and your local environment? The FreePorts and other catastrophes of the libertarian right would end overnight.\u00a0 Water\/Sewerage companies would change out of all recognition.<\/p>\n

                  On the more technical front, Ruth Catlow has created an app that allows quadratic voting on the blockchain and is already using it in Finsbury Park \u2013 her podcast on this remain<\/a>s among my favourites of all time. And there\u2019s some fascinating work being done on minimal blockchains<\/a> that allow huge amounts of data storage for minimal power use (please don\u2019t confuse modern blockchains with BitCoin).<\/p>\n

                  We\u2019re in, or close to the singularity of the technological growth curve.\u00a0 By the time you read this, there will be things that didn\u2019t exist when I wrote it.\u00a0 And there are people who really get where we\u2019re at who are determined to use tech wisely.\u00a0 There\u2019s something of a race, clearly, because there are also a lot of individuals, businesses and organisations who simply want to maximise the extractive potential of the death cult and they could easily tip us over the edge of biophysical collapse before we can turn the bus. But knowing this shouldn\u2019t stop us from imagining ways forward.<\/p>\n

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                  1. Following on from there, your protagonists have a lot of money and resources, which means they can dream their vision into being. It\u2019s all too easy to feel helpless at the enormity of what we face, so what advice would you give to the majority who don\u2019t have anything like those resources? How we can turn that helplessness into action?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                    My protagonists didn\u2019t start out with money: Maddie had nothing for most of her raising of the kids as a single mother in Glasgow –\u00a0 and there\u2019s an entire worldwide movement built of people from across all possible spectrums.<\/p>\n

                    Which is the point. The current system gives agency and power to those who already have agency and power. But they only have it because they are unchallenged. If we could find other ways of exchanging value, other ways of distributing genuine democracy, other ways of building communities of purpose and passion as well as of place\u2026then we can change the nature of power. Dollars are ideas.\u00a0 The power that accrues from having them is a collective agreement. We can change this agreement. But we do it only when we establish common values across the board<\/em> that see us moving forward in a different way.\u00a0 Figuring out and sharing those common values is they key and it\u2019s going to take all of us working together to do it.<\/p>\n

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                    1. The generational divide is a big part of the book \u2013 I believe all generations are needed to create a sustainable \u2013 Thrutopian \u2013 future, nobody can be excluded. How important is the need for intergenerational understanding?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                      Bridging the generational divide was one of the big themes of the book: it\u2019s going to take everyone to evolve the values that will take us forward. So the narrative not only bridges the generational divide \u2013 the main protagonist is old and she\u2019s dead.<\/em> We literally bridge the life\/death divide which is also the divide between consensus reality and the dreaming.\u00a0 We bridge the divide between humanity and the More than Human world. We bridge the divides of gender, class and race \u2013 because we have to; because in the end, we can all trace back to molecules of hydrogen and extinction is a real possibility and there is far, far more that unites us than divides us.\u00a0 This is one of the things Audrey Tang does so well \u2013 creating social media algorithms that promote\/reward bridging across diversity. This is essential to all that we do.<\/p>\n

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                      1. What is your dream\/wish for creating community-based activism? <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                        That it becomes the foundation of a new way of being.\u00a0 If we can bridge from our existing trauma culture to a new, 21st<\/sup> century initiation culture, where we let go of our ceaseless striving for dopamine hits which will never heal the wounds inside, and instead build bridges towards the serotonin mesh of community (which is far, far harder: I do know this) that extends our sense of connection to ourselves, each other and the entire web of life\u2026then I think we not only have a chance of avoiding extinction, I think we can build forward to a future we would be proud to leave to our grandchildren\u2019s grandchildren\u2019s grandchildren.<\/p>\n

                        Chris Smaje<\/a>, author of A Small Farm Future, says we need to become a good keystone species.\u00a0 Ronan Krznaric suggests we need to become Good Ancestors<\/a>. I think the reality stretches a bit beyond both of these, but they\u2019re pretty good starting points.<\/p>\n

                        We need to craft common values that everyone can sign up to and then we need to find ways to make them happen.<\/p>\n

                        As Ursula le Guin said a decade ago, \u2018We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. But so did the divine right of kings.\u00a0 Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. And often the impetus to resistance and change begins in art. Often in our art, the art of writing.\u2019<\/p>\n

                        So let\u2019s make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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