---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Daniel Pinchbeck (Loomio) <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:51 PM Subject: [P2P Foundation - Commons Transition Network WorkGroup] Commons Transition Culture 7-Step Process To: <[email protected]> [image: Daniel Pinchbeck] *Daniel Pinchbeck* commented in: Commons Transition Culture 7-Step Process <https://www.loomio.org/d/JCowQBHS/comment/2059190?membership_token=SScEKezZ9zuBuaWH2EfkyuZz&utm_campaign=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_comment> A Five Act black comedy about the end of the world ------------------------------ My first play! ------------------------------ “Just as the caterpillar becomes the butterfly, the individual will undergo complete metamorphosis within a new solid- state matrix. Our synapses will link up with the totality of information and we will become like demi-gods, knowing everything, creating new imperishable bodies out of steel, silicon, and rewritten genetic code.” - Deep Zero Recently I did something I have wanted to do all my life. I wrote my first play. The title of this five-act drama is Deep Zero. I am delighted to share it with you. Deep Zero is set at Exstazia, a massive transformational festival, in the near future. Most of the action takes place at a camp organized by members of the globetrotting elite where they come together annually to explore spirituality, psychedelics, art, music, and community in a pristine desert. During this particular gathering, unfortunately, the characters discover that global ecological catastrophe has accelerated. Within a few months, the world will be entirely transformed. Faced with that knowledge, what choices will they make as individuals? Who will be saved? Perhaps this sounds serious, but Deep Zero is a surreal black comedy. I was inspired by Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, as well as the modernist plays of Witkiewicz. If you know my past work, you can probably guess that Deep Zero is also an exploration of ideas in dramatic form. One of the characters is a transhumanist philosopher who argues for the Simulation Hypothesis: the idea that this universe is actually a mathematical model running in an alien supercomputer. Another is an activist with Annihilation Revolution, a decentralized radical movement. Another protagonist is building a “moon shot” technology to save the world by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. As a newbie to the dramatic world, I am not sure what I do with this play now that it exists. Of course I would love to see it given staged readings and performed. I am also working on a screenplay adaptation of it that will be significantly different, with a more upbeat culmination. If you want to organize a reading of Deep Zero, please write to me. Also, if you have ideas about what I can do with it, or criticisms and possible improvements, those are all fun for me to hear. Just don’t be mean. I am publishing it now in the lead up to this year’s Burning Man festival. While Deep Zero is set at an imaginary event, I borrowed a number of Burning Man memes and tropes. Another fun thing I did recently was appear on Duncan Trussell’s Family Hour ( https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809... <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=fce2c21159&e=f13febb92b&utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_comment> ), speaking about my recently released book The Occult Control System, on aliens, UFOS, Rudolf Steiner, and much more. Give it a listen! We also discussed When Plants Dream ( https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809... <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=dd6e291fbf&e=f13febb92b&utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_comment> ), my new book on the global spread of ayahuasca, coauthored with Sophia Rokhlin, which comes out in September from Watkins Books. Deep Zero is available today on Kindle ($6.66) ( https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809... <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=edb702705a&e=f13febb92b&utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_comment> ). It will be out in a few days as a paperback on demand. I hope you will allow it to tickle your mind. The opening scene and description are also on Medium ( https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809... <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=4fdb98b3ec&e=f13febb92b&utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_comment> ). 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