Garry

You had a profound response. I thought needed to respond back with a little than usual elaboration. I will bring up your comment and address each point:

I chose the wrong words. Meyer asked,"Why are we maintaining this facade?" I began my respose with, "There are no viable alternatives." What I was trying to say was there is no simple A or B choice. A is the present system, B is a radical change, uncharted, yet to be determined. There is no plan "B" ready to go.

I have a agree. There is no Plan B. I recently finished "Political Order and Political Decay" by Francis. Fukuyama. He wrote this book in 2014. Widely read, yet he offers no solution. Many other political academics are also shrugging their shoulders as the acamedically point to the mess. Academia is bereft of innovation.

I went on to say I believe that there are alternatives, but they are not being discussed on a wide scale.

Again I agree. But my experience on Medium is that people outside of the system really don't want to discuss solutions outside of the system.

I think we have to move away from a system of competition to a system of cooperation. What that looks like I have no idea. But what we are doing is not working.

Again totally agree. There would be 100s of Medium people who would agree. But my new system has lots of cooperation, consensus, collaboration, and consultation. But Medium people don't want to read my work.

I don't expect anything from the wealthy but resistance, because they are enriched by the present system.

Totally agree again. But the people are waiting for the privileged to come up with a new system--and then wonder why there isn't a widely discussed alternative?

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If average people are waiting for Oprah to read my book and put it on her list, it will be a long wait. Same too for other celebrities.

When I left politics in 1992, I didn't think I would ever be in a position to show the world how my ideas could work. But when I realized how vacuous the real experts are, it seemed I have been given a mission for a kinder, wiser democracy. So I started writing in 1997.

If someone else--more famous, more wealthy, more educated than I-- were offering the world a similar vision, I would lay my TDG project down.

I seem to be the only Plan B out there.