The US can be seen as the vanguard of the Western civilizational project that started in Western Europe, claiming Greco-Roman origins, and spread across the globe through conquest and settler colonization.
A remarkably readable exhumation of decades of geopolitics. Spot on!
One niggle, about Poor Old Mao: "While the Mao-dominated China gave way to the institutional rebuilding of Deng, Jiang and Hu.. In China, the Party-State acts as a barrier to a Mao-like figure, as does the memory of Mao’s rule" is a recap of what our media told us back in the '60s and '70s, embellished by bs 'scar literature' and 'great famine' narratives.
Mao was elected as non-executive chairman of an influential committee on which he had one vote.
He lost his chairmanship in 1961 following the Great Leap though, with normal harvests, the GL would have continued and he would have kept his chair. Even so, the GL built most of China's great dams and its irrigation infrastructure, among many other achievements.
Deng, the so-called architect of China's hypergrowth is reviled and forgotten by all except diehard capitalists and Western media.
Today and every day, more people will visit Mao's sites than visit all the sites of all the heroes in all of human history.
You can fool some of the people some of the time..
Why does one decide to write a book? Because they have something to say and nobody has said it the way one feels it has to be said up to now. Ever since I have been following your work I have had the feeling that you are writing the book I would like to write (and now don’t have to). I really appreciate that and look forward to every new chapter. Your work inspires my writing efforts in German. Thank you very much!
This is really good stuff Roger. Although I do not have the depth of your historical awareness I have come to a very similar interpretation of the present state of our shared reality. The crazy thing for myself though is that I think(which begs larger questions) I have arrived here via my own discernment. Curiosity, experimentation, investigation, reading, international travel, trusting in business associations, friendships with people of differing ideas……. Feet on the ground. The information is there for all but the noise of the narrative is loud and deafening. I realize that most will never question that narrative as it pretty much butters their bread so to speak, but I do what I can when an opportunity for conversation presents. Thank you for this work.
A remarkably readable exhumation of decades of geopolitics. Spot on!
One niggle, about Poor Old Mao: "While the Mao-dominated China gave way to the institutional rebuilding of Deng, Jiang and Hu.. In China, the Party-State acts as a barrier to a Mao-like figure, as does the memory of Mao’s rule" is a recap of what our media told us back in the '60s and '70s, embellished by bs 'scar literature' and 'great famine' narratives.
Mao was elected as non-executive chairman of an influential committee on which he had one vote.
He lost his chairmanship in 1961 following the Great Leap though, with normal harvests, the GL would have continued and he would have kept his chair. Even so, the GL built most of China's great dams and its irrigation infrastructure, among many other achievements.
Deng, the so-called architect of China's hypergrowth is reviled and forgotten by all except diehard capitalists and Western media.
Today and every day, more people will visit Mao's sites than visit all the sites of all the heroes in all of human history.
You can fool some of the people some of the time..
Why does one decide to write a book? Because they have something to say and nobody has said it the way one feels it has to be said up to now. Ever since I have been following your work I have had the feeling that you are writing the book I would like to write (and now don’t have to). I really appreciate that and look forward to every new chapter. Your work inspires my writing efforts in German. Thank you very much!
This is really good stuff Roger. Although I do not have the depth of your historical awareness I have come to a very similar interpretation of the present state of our shared reality. The crazy thing for myself though is that I think(which begs larger questions) I have arrived here via my own discernment. Curiosity, experimentation, investigation, reading, international travel, trusting in business associations, friendships with people of differing ideas……. Feet on the ground. The information is there for all but the noise of the narrative is loud and deafening. I realize that most will never question that narrative as it pretty much butters their bread so to speak, but I do what I can when an opportunity for conversation presents. Thank you for this work.