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  1. Philosopher journalist Robert D. Kaplan talking about fun feelgood
    uplifting stuff:

    > The coming anarchy was published in 1994 as an essay. It came out
    > in book form in 1996. That was the heart of the n the mid 1990s
    > when the policy elite at famous posh conferences in Davos and
    > elsewhere were predicting a world of liberal humanism. Uh they
    > predicted that uh Africa, Asia, every place would just follow
    > Eastern Europe into democracy and good governance. And I was
    > traveling around Africa, the Middle East, and other places, and I
    > said, "That's not true at all. These places have different
    > histories. They're at a different time in their development, and
    > they're not just following what happened with the collapse of the
    > this a number of regimes in former communist Eastern Europe. So,
    > you know, I I saw a totally different world than the policy elites
    > at the time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpWWP0Yow8&t=4m26s

    Taken from Youtube's automatic transcription of Making Sense no. 440 -
    How to Understand Our Global Emergency.

    More here:

    https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/440-a-world-in-crisis

    #makingsense
    #podcast
    #robertdkaplan
    #robertkaplan
    #samharris
    #schadenfreude
    #thecominganarchy
    #theendofhistory
  2. We can envisage a world where we #riot in the streets over #vinegarSteam — that stuff is awful.

    Its more difficult to envisage #protest over #centralBankers printing money for corporations they're invested in and when exposed they simply step down rather than go to prison.

    That stuff is hard.

    #imprisonList ericRosengren #robertKaplan #boston #dallas