Most of humanity’s urgent problems have known, often simple solutions. Much of it is engineering. We don’t do…

Most of humanity’s urgent problems have known, often simple solutions. Much of it is engineering. We don’t do the things that need doing because of our belief that democracy means routing all those problems through a popularity contest first. 1/2

That belief in turn comes from schooling, which has upended adult life in the past 75 years. We remade adult life as a high school. We don’t need any particular people to win elections. We need to remove the popularity detour entirely. 2/2