The meaningful exchange of truly diverse ideas and perspectives has withered over recent decades. Unorthodox thinking is increasingly trashed or disregarded, even as the chattering classs fear- and force-predicated approaches repeatedly prove inadequate to cope with the true complexities and crises of the modern world.
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Consider the worlds response to the COVID pandemic. A panic-stricken lockdown orthodoxy took hold far too soon, and those whose policy proposals deviated were labelled COVID deniers. Governments that went the farthest were feted by public intellectuals and in newspaper opinion pages.
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The new ARC forum can help us envision the future in a positive manner, emphasizing the ability of the properly competing and co-operating people of the world to solve whatever problems confront us, as we have done so often and often so effectively in the past. ARC thinkers are gathering from around the world to do precisely that. Enough panicked fear-mongering! We can focus on what is truly important and attainable, initiate and reward a more nuanced global discussion regarding the problems that will always beset us and look forward confidently to a world that is more abundant, more laden with opportunity, more sustainable and more hopeful.
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Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus and visiting fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution. His latest book is Best Things First. Jordan B. Peterson is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life and Beyond Order.
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