I don’t think all of this is possible, but so much more is possible than aging Boomers and centrists claim is achievable. So very much more.

We’ve had a complete instigated failure of imagination and prerogative, and undermining of possibility, with countless near-mindless myrmidons of abridgment declaring that nothing that hasn’t been done yet is possible, even in principle. Not realizing they are corporate-sponsored guided missiles of expectation-destruction, they shamble across the land desultorily mumbling, “Buy who will pay for it?” Never mind that we squander entire countries’ worth of resources weekly, that entire inconceivable coffers of wealth are locked up in the accounts of billionaires, that the defense industry spends more in a few days than the entire R&D funding of the world in toto.

These missiles of hopelessness are of course controlled by corporations and their enablers, who need a stable, predictable environment to skim maximal profits, to loot society’s wealth and knowledge, to continue to exist parasitically. Their propaganda, not physical and cognitive reality, tells us what is possible and that “possible” coincides exactly with what will gain and hold for them the most profit and the most power. Nothing else.

If you think anything other, then you aren’t much of a systems thinker, or a thinker period.