It should be easy to give a left-wing critique of "the Abundance agenda."
It should be easy for left-wing journalist, show hosts or commentarors to say:
"Hey Ezra, hey Derek, I see shat you're getting at here, but this environmental regulation or social protection you think we should... See more
reddit.comThe far-left opposition to "Abundance" is maddening.
Take that mentality and raise it to the power of Facebook, Instagram, and cable news – where people are more keenly aware of how other people live than ever before. It’s gasoline on a flame. Benedict Evans says, “The more the Internet exposes people to new points of view, the angrier people get that different views exist.” That’s a big shift from... See more
Nick Wignall • Outline.com
It is perhaps on the political Right that such ideas are most forcefully expressed today. Lasch emphasised that his new typology superseded the political binary, but fantasies of simple agrarian living, unprocessed food, and escape from modern technology now strike many as “conservative”. But whether its politics are coded as “Left” or “Right”,... See more
Blake Smith • What Christopher Lasch Got Wrong
The idea that people could actually self-organize durable arrangements for managing their own resources and that this paradigm of social governance could generate immense value, well, it seems either utopian or communistic, or at the very least, impractical. The idea that the commons could be a vehicle for social and political emancipation and... See more
David Bollier • Think Like a Commoner
moving past the grating kitsch of these geriatric tantrums for a moment, it will never not be hilarious the extent to which the sub-intellectual populist left's rhetoric has always been a product of their complete incapacity to intuit sustained economic growth at any level of abstraction whatsoever or to generalize beyond like one node of causality... See more
yung macro 宏观年少传奇x.comMuch of today’s left is concerned with an increasingly scarce moral high ground. Winning is a distant consideration. In this environment, vanguard politics serve as a way to differentiate themselves from the rest of society. And when their political programs fail, they see it as a vindication of their own elite positions. Under this social... See more