These researchers are not only brilliant, creating a compound which looks and functions like pain but generates electricity in much the same way as a solar panel, they make terrible puns as well! The name of this potentially revolutionary new product? Sun-believable!

Listen up, readers, I have an assignment for you. 15 pages of reading on what should be the most influential report to come out of the government in the past 10 years but probably won’t be.

This is the National Strategic Narrative, published by two senior members of the Joint Cheifs of Staff under the pseudonym “Mr. Y”. This narrative discusses what we as a country are doing wrong in the broadest sense - spending too much time, money and energy on Muslim extremism and military spending and not enough on Science, Education and a Sustainable future.

Sounds like new-age, leftist propaganda, right? But it isn’t. This is common-sense stuff, people, written by military experts. This isn’t about putting forth an agenda, this is making sure our country has a leg to stand on in 40 years. This is about making sound investments in our future - the kind of competitive forward thinking that made our country the great power it is today.

So whatever your political leanings may be, your stance on government spending, your priorities, I encourage you to read this. If you agree, and heck even if you disagree, go talk to your representative. Let them know that they need to be thinking about the future, now. Let them know that their job depends on it. This isn’t just a matter of preference - our survival as a country, as a people, and as a community depends on our ability to solve great problems with greater cooperation and sound thinking. The authors of this narrative, who have every incentive to keep the status quo and it’s bias toward the military, understand that things need to change. I hope you do too.