My god, it’s like you’ve read my mind, except that you are far more eloquent in your ability to enunciate the problems and well as the solutions facing our planet.

Covid gave us an opportunity to see the shape of things to come. But again, we blew it. Crisis passed is crisis forgotten. Covid changed our supply-demand equation, but we did all we could to quickly reestablish it. It is self-evident that the old economic models no longer work. Adam Smith’s supply side, Maynard Keynes’s demand side, Milton Friedman’s monetarism. All had their hour upon the stage, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. We need new economic models to explain our new, unexplainable world.

Global Climate Change is giving us another opportunity. We are staring planet-death in the face and we hide our faces to it. The environment is collapsing all around us. Species extinction, agriculture disruption, resource depletion, unsustainable growth. We need a new hypothesis of resource husbandry.

Wars and rumors of wars are on the rise. Between nations and between ideologies; international as well as civil. Authoritarianism and weaponization are seen at the answer to democracy and to discourse. Fake news is indiscernible from facts. Propaganda is the bitcoin of the realm.

All of this befalls the next generation, now beguiled by TikTok influencers soon to awake to the feeding frenzy of media exploitation. Blue pill or red pill? Which is the real reality? Is AI our doom or our savior?

My generation will be leaving a world to Gen Z of endless problems and possibilities, but a paradigm shift of global proportions the only real salvation. The old modes of civilization must die with my generation, before they end civilization altogether.

‘And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind

Let us rejoice, and let us sing, and dance

And ring in the new” - Donovan