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Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Peter Thiel: The Reasons for the Decline
Seems about right to me, but why has it happened and are we able to reverse the trend? There are a number of possible causes but it isn't easy to see how the trend could be reversed. Politically we are not even aware of it.
We got to be too busy land grabbing and as a result fighting each other to notice we were doing more damage to Western Europe than anywhere else. Then some madmen dreamed up a European Union, which made us too busy arguing among ourselves to notice what was going on elsewhere.
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We got to be too busy land grabbing and as a result fighting each other to notice we were doing more damage to Western Europe than anywhere else. Then some madmen dreamed up a European Union, which made us too busy arguing among ourselves to notice what was going on elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteDemetrius - and we are still too busy arguing among ourselves to notice what is going on elsewhere.
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