What Innovationism Means to Me - Penny Arcos
Video message from CPI Regional Captain in Minneapolis
I am Penny Arcos, the team captain for the Minnesota chapter of the Center for Political Innovation, and I’m here to tell you what Innovationism means to me.
Do you ever feel, in the morning when your alarm goes off, that dread in the pit of your stomach, that you have to scroll through your feed and see all the horrible news in the world? The next war, the next famine, the next bankruptcy, the next pandemic. It makes you not even want to get out of bed.
But that’s intentional. The algorithms pump through our phones incessant amounts of despair and hopelessness and lethargy because they don’t want you to wake up and experience the joy of using your God-given creativity to innovate and to create.
So I, as a revolutionary, as an innovationist, have chosen to follow news out of the Alliance of the Sahel States and China. The Alliance of the Sahel States is giving me hope that countries can break free from the domination of Wall Street and London. China gives me hope that we can partner with other countries and build a beautiful world,
In the Alliance of the Sahel States, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are using the revenue from their gold, their oil, and their uranium to invest in a national development bank. They are funding an Agropastoral and Fishing Offensive in Burkina Faso. They’re having a farming boom, and they’re growing crops that were once thought impossible to grow on the soil of the Land of Upright Men. Cacao, plantains, and many other crops.
The Faso Mêbo Initiative, which is now the Faso Mêbo Agency, in Burkina Faso, is mobilizing the entire population to build roads and to plant trees. And they’re building a 203-mile expressway; an eight lane expressway.
China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, and they have high speed rail all across the country. They also invest in conservation projects like the Green Wall around the desert and nature preserves, and they use technology to help farmers. Drones help farmers to plant seedlings and to water crops and to fertilize crops and to drop seedlings.
They use robots to help elderly care. Seniors in their homes get to be served by robots that will help them to get through their day and to eat and to sleep.
What can we learn from this? America, wake up. We need to join with the anti-imperialist countries around the world and build an innovationist movement.
We as Americans, we as humanity, can use our God-given creativity and our will to build a beautiful world.
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