Cassidy Steele Dale writes to equip you with the forecasts, foresight skills and perspectives, and tools you may need to create a better, kinder world.
And one of those ways is to start a series on what we’re afraid to talk about.
Alex Garland’s film Civil War will be released tomorrow. I’ll see it over the weekend and will review it for next week’s newsletter. In my newsletter for the week after I’ll explain why I don’t believe a Second American Civil War is about to happen and what I believe is more likely instead.
To set the stage for that, last summer I published my scenarios of Possible Futures for American Democracy (2023-2040). That's your starting place for alllllllll of this. Whether (or to what degree) there’s political and/or religious violence or not is an outflow of which future we give ourselves. Read that newsletter twice. It’s dense but simple, and still on track to be accurate as a forecast set.
If you want another preheater, here’s the interview from the day after Civil War made its debut at South by Southwest a few weeks ago. Minutes 24 to 35 are what you’re looking for.
If you are a cynic and a pessimist then the next few newsletters might be catnip for you.
If you’re afraid we’ll have another civil war, these next few newsletters will help you sort through a great deal of what could happen next. And what won’t.
See you next week.