THRIVABLE SOCIETY JOURNAL

ISSUE: SPRING 2023

Absurd Scenario Planning

By Jean M. Russell & Melissa Pierce
Thrivable Society Journal
Spring 2023

We need to challenge our imaginations, get creative.

Part of what makes thrivability so difficult for people to picture turns out to be how much we live in our assumptions of what exists now continuing to be.

How can we push our imaginations to dream up a thrivable world?

Make up Absurd Scenarios to get your creative juices flowing:

  • ”We find out that visions of angels, demons, and UFOs are the result of an evolutionary control system that’s influencing us to build A.I. so it can have a friend, so we just keep doing what we’re doing.” Michael Gusek
  • “It gets out that blockchain is just a different kind of database and millions of geeks go into therapy because they realized they wasted years of their lives trying to geeksplain it with the more jargon than a corporate meeting.” Michael Gusek
  • “Analog computing makes a comeback and suddenly people get less OCD.” Michael Gusek
  • “Consulting firms are finally revealed as super expensive staff augmentation and everyone goes on vacation under the sheer lunacy of the realization.” Michael Gusek

Send us your absurdly creative scenarios so we can share them in our next journal and practice imagining:

email us at: jean@thrivable.net

or tweet us at @thrivable

READ MORE FROM THE SPRING 2023 ISSUE