Introduction This blog begins by reviewing a classic – Why Nations Fail – the Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daren Acemoglu and James A Robinson, and then moves on to more contemporary themes around how ‘civilization erasure’ as a construct is being deployed to bring in authoritarian regimes that would impact prosperity and […]
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The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas
The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas Is Democracy being reduced to meaningless hyperreality – a simulacrum for the monkey mind of the common man entrapped within a world that is increasingly virtual, untrustworthy, unsafe, lonely, and ambivalent? The Context & the Divide This blog leverages textual analyses of two speeches given by […]
Incorrigibly romantic ... 