The Elysian, Volume II

For the first three years of my newsletter, before I printed my work into pamphlets, I published each year of my work into collectable print volumes with gold foil covers for my paid subscribers at the premium tier. The print edition was just for them, but the e-book is still available as an EPUB.

Edition two includes:

• Introduction by Elle Griffin

• Foreword by Austin Tindle

Philosophy

• Who’s qualified to save the world?

• Humanism as the future of religion

• Neverland and the utopia of childhood

• Humans are good (except for that one guy)

Government

• There are already utopian countries

• Could a US state become a “utopian country?”

• US states could have universal healthcare

• Should US states self-govern?

• What if we split the US into city-states?

• Cities should manage immigration (not nations)

• Decouple federal government from nation-states

• Why have we settled for in-optimal governance? By Austin Tindle

• Imagining our Martian Government by J.K. Lund

• How We Saved the World from Underground by Peter Clayborne

• We should vote for plans, not politicians

• What if government worked like Wikipedia?

• I’d like to open a Singapore franchise please?

Capitalism

• Mondragon as the new City State

• The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon

• Every company should be owned by their employees

• Founders will get much richer by exiting to their employees

• Do we still want the future designed by the past?

• The rich are not the problem (we are)

• The rich are not causing the poor

• A world of billionaires by J.K. Lund

• Why I’m not a free-market capitalist (yet)

• Yes, I am a techno-optimist

• I’m not going to have kids to save the economy

Work & Leisure

• Blue-collar jobs might be the best jobs

• It’s time to rethink retirement

• Digital nomads are opening borders

• You’d still work if you didn’t have to

• “Friends” as the ideal community

• Maybe you need to have more fun

• Maybe women should design our sci-fi future

• I watched the Super Bowl because of Taylor Swift

• One alternative to prison

Art & Culture

• Could AI make us wise?

• Bring back the “Renaissance Man”

• Where do we find paradise?

• Some notes on the aesthetic of progress by Alex Telford

• We should remove electives from higher education

• The unbearable necessity of being online

• How do we stop fighting on the internet?

• No one buys books

• Publishers aren’t in trouble, writers are

• I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract

• Substack could create the future of books

• In pursuit of a masterpiece

Letters

• Letters to a skeptic, part one by Elle Griffin

• Letters to a skeptic, part two by R. G. Miga

• Letters to a skeptic, part three by Elle Griffin

• Letters to a skeptic, part four by R. G. Miga

• Letters to a skeptic, part five by Elle Griffin

• Letters to a skeptic, part six by R. G. Miga