FM-2030

So is that why you, you see in your own work that there's both left and right elements, and that's why you argue for radical centrism, some kind of new upwing politics that's, uh, that incorporates both left and right?

Yeah, I'm definitely an upwinger influenced by FM 2030.

Uh, had a recent podcast interview with Peter Clarke on Team Futurism where we talked about this.

Um, yeah, the upwing basically combines the thought of Hayek and the utopian socialist, Henri de Saint-Simon, and, uh, really cuts across the left-right binary for a new futurist orientation.

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