Short Summary: A Techno-Optimist Engagement Strategy
By Edward Hudgins, Ph.D.
“If our ideas are right, why do we keep losing?”
Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute founder
“Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been!”
Wayne Gretzky, Hockey star and all-around smart guy.
The GOP collapse in the midterm elections is putting into office enemies of our techno-optimist revolution. We saw the mass rejection of data centers and fearmongering about artificial intelligence from Left and Right; recently, Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders shared the same stage to denounce it.
Facts and reason are on our side. We highlight the incredible benefits of technology in healthcare, industrial productivity, and education. Yet our arguments more and more fall on deaf minds in a misinformation saturated, attention-deficit, dogma-deluded era. Our strategy is not working.
The election was a wakeup call for many tech innovators and entrepreneurs in various sectors, many already leaning towards minimal government regulation. In California, left-leaning billionaires worked to beat back the tax on them, seeing they’d created their own despoilers.
We need to supplement our policy work with greater active engagement with tech innovators and entrepreneurs. We need to attend, sponsor, and speak at conferences. We need to visit them in their operations to best understand the real regulatory problems they face . We need to help them understand that seeking government help is a long-term guarantee of government regulation. And we need to engage in the civil war on the Right to beat back the temptation to overcome polarization by uniting with the Luddite Lect.
We need to create a new, political and cultural Up Wing realignment to unleash a techno-optimist future of unimaged wealth and healthy longevity!
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Edward Hudgins, Ph.D.
Human Achievement Alliance, Inc.
ehudgins@humanachievementalliance.org
301-502-6593
