Sense & Solidarity presents A Holiday from the Holidays:
A live hybrid parasocial event appropriate for the end of the year, the end of the world, and the birth of a new one.
- ONLINE (on Zoom): 90min webinar, 5pm UK time (12pm Eastern) (register here)
- IN PERSON (at Max’s commune): 3:30pm cake and coffee; 5pm live recording; 6:30pm soup and mescal sours (RSVP here)
Join Max and Sarah of Sense & Solidarity for a discussion of what we can expect about how the world will get worse and what we can do to make the world better in 2025.
- MAX will talk about The year of the warlord: From revenge politics to avenging imaginaries
- SARAH will explain How not to go completely insane in 2025: What cognitive science can and can’t teach us
Is 2025 the new 2017? The new 1934? The new [insert worst year ever]? Let’s talk about it!
YOU: trying to keep it together while the world is falling apart. At home or with your family, bored of Christmas wishing you could talk to others about how awful the world is, how hard you’re trying to change it, how confused and angry you are you’re trapped on a polluted watery rock, hurtling through space with a bunch of narcissistic chaos monkeys and, oh gawd, you’re also probably a narcissistic chaos monkey and nothing, nothing, nothing is “fine”!
WE: are two nerdo-spicy radical intellectuals who, thanks to the affordances of the otherwise truly awful internet, now produce a podcast and run workshops on what works to change hearts and minds and have somehow found a few thousand narcissistic chaos monkeys who want to listen to us rant.
TOGETHER: we’ll spend 90 minutes on Zoom (like it’s 2020, baby!). First, Max and Sarah will utter hard truths and fateful prophesies. Then they will respond to your questions and provocations. It will be fun, and funny. Hear Sarah tease Max about his painfully dorky obsessions with scams and games. Hear Max get Sarah’s partners mixed up (because there are a lot of them and he’s forgetful like that).
Come for the solace of sharing a heavily surveilled virtual corporate space with other malcontents and assorted zoombombers; Stay for the slightly dubious eggnog and stale Christmas treats.*
(* dystopian snacks not included. Sense & Solidarity takes no responsibility for excessive despair or euphoria)