#schadenfreude — Public Fediverse posts

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

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