Dr John Izzo

Hey people.

Happy New Year, or Happy Hogmanay if you're north of the border between Scotland and England.

And welcome to Accidental Gods once again.

We are heading into our seventh year of weekly episodes, which feels remarkably good.

And yes, we are still the podcast that believes another world is possible.

Although, at the time of recording, the wind out there is suggesting...

that the whole world might blow away by tomorrow.

However, if you hear this, it didn't.

And so, we do still believe that if we all work together, there is still time to lay the foundations for a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.

I'm Manda Scott, your host and fellow traveller in this journey into possibility.

And this year, we are really going to be looking at Thrutopian route maps that will take us from where we are towards that future that we would be proud to leave behind.

And pretty much the only thing that we all agree on, wherever we are on any of the spectrums of tribal division,

is that the current system is not what we need.

It's not working for us.

It may be working for the very, very, very tiny number of people right at the top who I sincerely doubt ever have or ever will listen to this podcast, but it's not working for anybody else.

I think the system is doing exactly what it was always designed to do, which is to enrich a very few at the top.

However, it is absolutely not fit for purpose.

And so then one of the questions that we will be wrestling with a lot in the coming year is how do we replace this?

And that takes two things.

It takes a vision of what we could do and a mechanism of replacement that is without question peaceful.