Future Chi
Episode 31: Future

This week’s episode sketch is a reflection on all 30 of the first episodes of Season 1.

The Episode

As we come to the end of Season 1 of the Future Chi podcast we’re reflecting on the first 30 episodes - where we came from and where we’re headed. Most importantly we’re asking the question: what does the future hold? 

We’re on the precipice of something new and we’re heading for a crash or renewal, but we also can’t dwell on what’s to come; the future needs us to work in the present, to build our practice, and live correctly. In this episode Jost and Leon discuss how Neanderthals may have been the first martial artists, how the Taoists were the original futurists, and the dangers of moving into a mental construct of reality instead of a physical one. Jost talks about the need to work with technology and not hand over to it, how we must always return to the beginning but forget the past, and how internal chaos gives rise to external destruction (what we can do about it). Leon talks about what Mark Zuckerberg and Mikhail Kalashnikov have in common, the devaluation of physical fitness and the warrior class, and how the future could probably do without post-it notes. 

In typical Future Chi fashion the conversation also covers aliens, artificial intelligence, the apocalypse, global warming, intuition, augmented reality, censorship, time travel, evolution, and how to save the world. It’s a wild ride and a fitting way to end the first season in preparation for the next.

The future is about feeling our way forward, cultivating our health, and building our intuition. So what’s the future of chi? The future is chi.