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Solutions Abound, but Not Necessarily Where We Expect
by Charles Hugh Smith Of Two Minds
Solutions abound, we just have to look for them in the right places.
Despite my reputation as a doom-and-gloomer, all of my work is about solutions. The first step in identifying realistic solutions is to dispense with the distracting clutter of fantasies, a process that is dismissed as doom-and-gloom. But if we latch onto fantasies as solutions, we can’t proceed to real-world solutions.
For four generations (80 years), we’ve become accustomed to seeking solutions from the federal government. This reliance on large-scale solutions began with the federal responses to the Great Depression and then gathered steam in World War II and the Cold War. By the 1960s, federal programs, policies and spending were the go-to solutions for every problem.