On Niall Ferguson's newest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest
The notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of
collapse..... The
Roman Empire did not decline and fall over a millennium... It collapsed within a few decades in the early fifth
century... What all these collapsed powers have in common is that the complex
social systems that underpinned them suddenly ceased to function....
The U.S. ranks 86th in the world for the costs imposed on business by
organized crime, 50th for public trust in the ethics of politicians,
42nd for various forms of bribery, and 40th for standards of auditing
and financial reporting....the 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has become
dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the
underclass at the bottom of the income distribution....
...we need to... delete the viruses that have crept into our system:
the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking
to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft
subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the
lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special
interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional
system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our
newfound unemployment ethic....
............ John Mauldin.........
whatthe 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has
become dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the
underclass at the bottom of the income distribution.
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)
What
all these collapsed powers have in common is that the complex social systems
that underpinned them suddenly ceased to function.
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)
The U.S. ranks 86th in the world for the costs imposed on business by
organized crime, 50th for public trust in the ethics of politicians, 42nd for various
forms of bribery, and 40th for standards of auditing and financial reporting.
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)
The
notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of collapse.
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)
The
notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of collapse
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)The notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of
collapseThe notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of
collapse
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)
Source: JohnMauldin.com (http://s.tt/16PpX)The notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of
collapse.The notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of
collapse.The notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the
anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused,
fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of
collapse.
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