Our systems are broken. And like no other period in history, we’ve been able to watch them deteriorate in real time. Or maybe not. People have lived through some pretty awful times. Some came through the other side, some didn’t. 

I think what makes this time in history different however, is that we in the west are trapped by our comfort, rather than having nothing to lose. We have just enough to cling to, so that risking it seems foolhardy, impractical, self-defeating. 

So we let ourselves be controlled. Let ourselves be coerced by our comfort. Anaesthetise ourselves with our devices and entertainment, even though many of us sense how hollow this is.

We’ve become so insular, so independent, that we’ve forgotten what real community even feels like.

How do we break free? How do we detox ourselves from our dependence on technology and systems that are no longer serving us? That are stripping us of our humanity?

I don’t have the answers, but I do have a science fantasy novella in which a brave group of people take the risk of removing themselves from the grid and building something new, something nurturing. Of taking the collected wisdom of millenia and blending it with more recent discoveries. Of looking to the natural order for answers, instead of trying to dominate it.

They rage against the machine in a life-giving way.

If that idea pulls at your heart, come and join the adventure.