The fifth obstacle is us. Our cynicism, our exhaustion, our tendency to scroll past the policy debate and doom-post about the inevitable robot apocalypse. Doomerism is a form of political paralysis. If you believe the future is already determined, you don’t organize, you don’t vote, you don’t fight. You wait for the catastrophe and feel validated when it arrives.

JA Westenberg: A Soft-Landing Manual for the Second Gilded Age