I have a question that is really a comment. How would the Abundance Movement address the federal budget deficit and still rebuild state capacity and public confidence?
Kenneth Rosen's new book Polar War also highlights how embarassingly inadequate our ships and icebreakers are compared to those of other countries and how our military are unprepared for conflict with Russia in Alaska. Reducing research dollars given the changing climate is also a hindrance. It's a great read!
Looking forward to hearing more about your vision.
I think Abundance should certainly be one of the pillars, although along with expanding it beyond energy,housing, transportation, and state capacity, I'd also think what an abundance agenda for public safety and education/parental support might look like as well.
But abundance alone, as Brink Lindsey persuasively argues (https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-progress-movement-needs-a-better) isn't enought. I'd suggest a second pillar needs to be about service and community. Have a number of of ideas for that pillar including national service, a four day work week with the 5th day becoming a "civic day", rethinking jury duty to be about service more broadly, and initiatives to help neighborhoods.
Finally, I think a third pillar needs to be the vision for what American foreign policy needs to be in the post-Trump. I think the challenge is how best to make the rise of China a positive for the world. I would approach that from the perspective of a Jean Monnet by which I mean how do we build structures that help the Chinese and Americans view themselves as partners rather as enemies.
But where would you start to unwind the "vetocracy" at all levels of government? How do we generate support to move from a Jeffersonian to a Hamiltonian government?
Politics post-Trump are most likely to include all progressive 'goodies' to be obtained by packing of the Supreme Court and elimination of the Senate filibuster.
Abundance agenda requires competent and non-corrupt technocrats to enact it. Where are they? Covid demonstrated on a majestic scale the incompetence of the elites. It also broke open the story of how ALL our institutions from NIH to university public health departments to scientific journals are influenced by big pharma money and lobbying. One could argue that the soviet union tried abundance and failed! China seems to be suceeding better - but at what cost? And do we want that?
As the good book said, " Man cannot live by bread alone."
I have a question that is really a comment. How would the Abundance Movement address the federal budget deficit and still rebuild state capacity and public confidence?
Kenneth Rosen's new book Polar War also highlights how embarassingly inadequate our ships and icebreakers are compared to those of other countries and how our military are unprepared for conflict with Russia in Alaska. Reducing research dollars given the changing climate is also a hindrance. It's a great read!
Looking forward to hearing more about your vision.
I think Abundance should certainly be one of the pillars, although along with expanding it beyond energy,housing, transportation, and state capacity, I'd also think what an abundance agenda for public safety and education/parental support might look like as well.
But abundance alone, as Brink Lindsey persuasively argues (https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-progress-movement-needs-a-better) isn't enought. I'd suggest a second pillar needs to be about service and community. Have a number of of ideas for that pillar including national service, a four day work week with the 5th day becoming a "civic day", rethinking jury duty to be about service more broadly, and initiatives to help neighborhoods.
Finally, I think a third pillar needs to be the vision for what American foreign policy needs to be in the post-Trump. I think the challenge is how best to make the rise of China a positive for the world. I would approach that from the perspective of a Jean Monnet by which I mean how do we build structures that help the Chinese and Americans view themselves as partners rather as enemies.
But where would you start to unwind the "vetocracy" at all levels of government? How do we generate support to move from a Jeffersonian to a Hamiltonian government?
Politics post-Trump are most likely to include all progressive 'goodies' to be obtained by packing of the Supreme Court and elimination of the Senate filibuster.
Abundance agenda requires competent and non-corrupt technocrats to enact it. Where are they? Covid demonstrated on a majestic scale the incompetence of the elites. It also broke open the story of how ALL our institutions from NIH to university public health departments to scientific journals are influenced by big pharma money and lobbying. One could argue that the soviet union tried abundance and failed! China seems to be suceeding better - but at what cost? And do we want that?
As the good book said, " Man cannot live by bread alone."