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Welcome to Akadap here, a podcast about a world on fire and how to put it out.

I'm your host, Mia Wong.

The world is fucked.

It's the one thing everyone agrees on.

In the vacuum of a defeated Democratic Party and a hideously unpopular fascist takeover

that is nevertheless on the march,

ideologies vie for the mantle of resistance to the fascist purge.

Zeran Mamdani's victory in New York represents a resurgent social democracy.

In the streets, everyone from liberals to communists to anarchists are fighting against ice and

the National Guard occupations. To get our bearings in the swirling vortex of ideology,

let us check in slightly further to the right, but still firmly in the grounds of liberalism on a new movement called abundance.

What is abundance? Brust into prominence by a book in March 2025, simply called

Abundance by Liberal stalwart Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson,

who is slightly well-known, and futures people like Matthew and Glacius.

They argue that growth is good. They argue we should make more things.

They argue we should have bold visions of the future with, to quote Malcolm Harris's

description in the baffler, desalinated ocean water flowing from the taps, skyscraper farms

growing our food indoors, and quote star pills manufactured in space, clean air, and superfast

planes. Think big, think fast, solve problems by building more.

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