This is the part of the infrastructure discussion that's missing, IMO. What kind of places do we want? We always have this rear view "crumbling" maintenance lens. And not like what is our aspirational vision?

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 19, 2021

I’ve thought quite a lot about this lack any sort of vision for the future. Part of this deficit of imagination is just due to polarization but another factor is I believe the diminution of the humanities and the denigration and reduction of the study of anything not STEM-centric.

There can be and will be no invention of a better future if the past is a blank, the present is a spreadsheet, and all minds are filled only with equations rather than inspiration from art, from books, from some declaration of human aspirations and betterment.