Maggie's Farm

I hope he's right and I believe there is a reasonable chance that he is, but his conditions for achieving the future he expects are under constant attack by powerful forces. Ronald Reagan noted that freedom is fragile and is at risk with every generation. In the nation that was created with the idea of liberal science and free speech, free markets, and liberal government, those basic principles are under attack by certain elites, many of whom are subsidized by our government. It should be no surprise that those attacks are even more powerful elsewhere.

Ideas of a certain "mass" are historically almost impossible to definitively discredit. For example, many on the left are unabashed socialists in spite of not only the disastrous past experiments with it that resulted in the deaths of a hundred million people but with current disastrous examples in Cuba and Venezuela. Socialism is an idea that has ended in misery EVERY time it's been attempted yet there is still surprising support for it.

Bailey doesn't attempt to describe the level of effort required to maintain the positive trajectory he envisions. If history is a guide, there will be a lot of people who will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to his great future.

At the same time, it's been noted that sperm counts have been decreasing over the last several decades which plays into Bailey's narrative causing me to wonder if that was actually driven by something bigger than we can comprehend.