"In the Long Run We Are All Dead"?

John Maynard Keynes’s famous line can mean a lot of things, but one possible interpretation is that it’s not enough to have a vision for the long-run; you also have to be able to persuade others to adapt it in the short run.

If your vision is so ambitious and so counter-cultural that it leads to your becoming an enemy of the state it won’t do you much g…