Most people think politics boils down to different answers to the question: how do we make the world a better place? According to idealist Michael Strong, the first step is to ditch the politics. The second step in making the world better – that is, progressing in areas like human happiness, environmental health and overall well-being – is to eliminate what can only be described as some of our cultural baggage.
Consider what we’ll call the “Zero-sum Three”:
1. Manichaeism—People are good or evil and the world is black and white;
2. Pessimism—The glass is half empty (and it’s usually somebody else’s fault); and
3. Statism—Government can and should solve all of our problems. It’s easier to hope and pray (to bureaucracies) than to “just do it”.
Be the Solution, a new book by FLOW co-founder Michael Strong, is as much about liberating entrepreneurship as it is a serious critique of the Zero-sum Three. And by Strong’s lights, entrepreneurship is more than just making money. Much more. Drucker and Hayek? Meet Maslow and the Mahatma.
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