The Bell Curve and the Future of Politics

I think back to some of that writing in the book The Quiet American, where Graham Greene talks about telling the American advisors in the 50s like, hey, you can come here and you can do your war, but a thousand years from now, there's still going to be in those rice fields with those oxen, fly on the fields. Oh, I think he's probably right too. Yeah, I do think he was thinking of the superpowers and that be at the time. And we're seeing in the United States right now some very scary fallout in our politics from some of the choices that we've made and where we've gone. It'll be interesting to see what happens

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