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Not enough Dunkin' Donuts...
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Absolutely fantastic presentation from Peter Zeihan. Global demographics and energy supplies. As for us here at home in the US? Drill baby, Drill. Shale oil and gas. 'Murica!
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
NatGeo Freeman's stuff, just like that - http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/the-story-of-god-with-morgan-freeman/
Amazingly simple English about the most intricate problems, at least as it seems to me.
In a car, driving long distance legs through f**king Russian roads - old stuff like Ozzy, especially live show tapes, where really great musicians work for him (Rhoads, Zack Wylde, Joe Holmes, Geezer Butler, Mike Bordin etc) and Ozzy himself is constantly dippie-drunken. Good for driving
Amazingly simple English about the most intricate problems, at least as it seems to me.
In a car, driving long distance legs through f**king Russian roads - old stuff like Ozzy, especially live show tapes, where really great musicians work for him (Rhoads, Zack Wylde, Joe Holmes, Geezer Butler, Mike Bordin etc) and Ozzy himself is constantly dippie-drunken. Good for driving
I came across a new podcast this week. It's called The Fighter Pilot Podcast. The cheese factor is high in the name, but if you're a youngster looking to learn a little bit about various aspects of the TACAIR community this podcast seems to be a reasonable resource created by a guy with who's been there, done that, and got the patch. It seems like he's starting off early episodes with some fairly low hanging fruit/topics, but there appears to be some potential for good growth and discussion. Time will tell.
RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
I think he means “Attack/Tanker Pilot Podcast.”
RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
He’s far from fucking brilliant. Atheism and being a provacateur is no longer impressive. Sam Harris used to be good but he’s turned into a modern Dawkins. Intolerably self-righteous, stubborn, myopic. Google his tiff with Chomsky—Harris gets handled when faced with any lefitimate intellectual muscle.
Fuck yes!
He’s an acquired taste. Whatever your stance on his core themes, I’m fairly certain that I would enjoy watching the two of you discuss just about anything.
OT-VA
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Niall Ferguson's new book on networks struck me as interesting.
Here is a brief summary of what he is getting at via the pod:
"In Civilization: The West and the Rest, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that, beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts that the Rest lacked: competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic. These were the ‘killer applications’ that allowed the West to leap ahead of the Rest; opening global trade routes, exploiting new scientific knowledge, evolving representative government, more than doubling life expectancy, unleashing the industrial revolution, and hugely increasing human productivity. Civilization shows exactly how a dozen Western empires came to control three-fifths of mankind and four-fifths of the world economy.
Yet now, Ferguson argues, the days of Western predominance are numbered because the Rest have finally downloaded the six killer apps the West once monopolized – while the West has literally lost faith in itself."
How, if at all, do you all think this plays into American strategic culture?
https://audioboom.com/posts/6900141...he-west-and-the-rest-by-niall-ferguson-author
Here is a brief summary of what he is getting at via the pod:
"In Civilization: The West and the Rest, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that, beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts that the Rest lacked: competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic. These were the ‘killer applications’ that allowed the West to leap ahead of the Rest; opening global trade routes, exploiting new scientific knowledge, evolving representative government, more than doubling life expectancy, unleashing the industrial revolution, and hugely increasing human productivity. Civilization shows exactly how a dozen Western empires came to control three-fifths of mankind and four-fifths of the world economy.
Yet now, Ferguson argues, the days of Western predominance are numbered because the Rest have finally downloaded the six killer apps the West once monopolized – while the West has literally lost faith in itself."
How, if at all, do you all think this plays into American strategic culture?
https://audioboom.com/posts/6900141...he-west-and-the-rest-by-niall-ferguson-author
Pretty sure the "killer apps" western nations used to subjugate their colonies were actually racism, brutality, slavery, genocide, and fanaticism, but sure the west were the only folks who had "rule of law" and "work ethic."
Did you actually read what you quoted there? Does it make any fucking sense?
Thr most perfunctory reading of history will show you how utterly stupid, inherently racist, and morally bankrupt Ferguson's hypothesis sounds.
OT-VA
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No, I'm inclined to agree with what you are saying. But I'm curious as to how this sort of assessment of a binary world order is still affecting the way policy makers think about strategy. It seems to me that such an argument is very much so pushing and influencing upper echelon policy proposals today. Why do you think these civilizational narratives persist while a more relativistic (or subjective) interpretation of world order faces push back?