Setting Apollonian Goals

How can societies get meaningful things done?

In January many of us set new year resolutions - lose weight, give up a vice, exercise more etc. - and usually struggle to stick to them. It is the same way with societies too - governments announce lofty goals only to swiftly disappoint everybody. Quite often, this will take the form of something being touted as a “moonshot”, and as far as I can tell, …