Thanks,Collin, for prying this thing open. Like others you’ve noted herein, I haven’t read the book, either, but listened to an interview on the book with Klein, who I had generally admired. I am reminded of a closing statement from Brecht’s Life of Galileo. And, from my last (ever) experience as local govt administrator dealing with a 110 lot residential subdivision development, I could go on at length about what drives housing costs here in the relatively calm (and shrinking) Quad Cities, and it ain’t regulatory over-reach. But, to Klein’s assertion, as I understand, We the People must free up the regs, loosen the fetters, and let a thousand flowers of housing permits bloom forth. A chicken in every pot, two amazing cars and a $12,000 mower in every garage and granite in the kitchen remodel...
Brecht, that nettlesome questioner of the way we’ve always done things, has Galileo surrendering to The Man at the end of his play, because, well, it’s The Man, and the Man wants control and progress; progress that leaves control in the hands of the powerful. So, finally to my point, paraphasing Brecht’s Galileo: “And yet, the glaciers melt”; or, “And yet, the homeless increase”; or, “And yet, the aquifers diminish”; or, “And yet, the left-brain dominant takers dominate”; or, “And yet, the comfortably entitled never have enough”; or, as said by Brecht's Galileo, “And yet, it moves…”
In the end, It Moves, there is gravity, there are limits, and selling a version of the notion that we can all have everything we want, including, with what constant the algorithmic analyses of our likes and looks and taps at the little dark mirror tells us, all manner of wondrous things that will make us feel powerful and ‘fulfilled’. In the end, I’m coming to think, that the problem is simply greed.
“Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.”
I read the first few chapters of Abundance. I feel like it's a book designed to get both of the respective writers' audiences to buy it. Hence the collaboration.
I think that's probably right. I don't think there's anything in it that a reader wouldn't already have from reading/listening to them, so maybe there was an eventness to its publication that they wanted to capitalize on. I think it was originally slated to come out last fall, which probably contributed to the sense that its "moment" feels so much more artificial to me.
Thanks,Collin, for prying this thing open. Like others you’ve noted herein, I haven’t read the book, either, but listened to an interview on the book with Klein, who I had generally admired. I am reminded of a closing statement from Brecht’s Life of Galileo. And, from my last (ever) experience as local govt administrator dealing with a 110 lot residential subdivision development, I could go on at length about what drives housing costs here in the relatively calm (and shrinking) Quad Cities, and it ain’t regulatory over-reach. But, to Klein’s assertion, as I understand, We the People must free up the regs, loosen the fetters, and let a thousand flowers of housing permits bloom forth. A chicken in every pot, two amazing cars and a $12,000 mower in every garage and granite in the kitchen remodel...
Brecht, that nettlesome questioner of the way we’ve always done things, has Galileo surrendering to The Man at the end of his play, because, well, it’s The Man, and the Man wants control and progress; progress that leaves control in the hands of the powerful. So, finally to my point, paraphasing Brecht’s Galileo: “And yet, the glaciers melt”; or, “And yet, the homeless increase”; or, “And yet, the aquifers diminish”; or, “And yet, the left-brain dominant takers dominate”; or, “And yet, the comfortably entitled never have enough”; or, as said by Brecht's Galileo, “And yet, it moves…”
In the end, It Moves, there is gravity, there are limits, and selling a version of the notion that we can all have everything we want, including, with what constant the algorithmic analyses of our likes and looks and taps at the little dark mirror tells us, all manner of wondrous things that will make us feel powerful and ‘fulfilled’. In the end, I’m coming to think, that the problem is simply greed.
“Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.”
I read the first few chapters of Abundance. I feel like it's a book designed to get both of the respective writers' audiences to buy it. Hence the collaboration.
I think that's probably right. I don't think there's anything in it that a reader wouldn't already have from reading/listening to them, so maybe there was an eventness to its publication that they wanted to capitalize on. I think it was originally slated to come out last fall, which probably contributed to the sense that its "moment" feels so much more artificial to me.