Saturday, August 27, 2016

Quotes from "The Seventh Sense" a book by Joshua Cooper Ramo

Power, Fortune and Survival in the age of Networks: The Seventh Sense:
from the first chapter: The Masters page 13:

"--I'll linger particularly on the problems of war and peace. Just what might be the future of world order be? Pretty much any expert you talk to describes a world leading into chaos, with an ever weaker America. In fact, once we look at networks, they suggest a very different outcome. Yes, human history has been paced by wars and power struggles between nations. This is what Europe endured in the last five hundred years. But think about all of history. Some systems endure for centuries. The Roman Empire. Chinese dynasties. Assyrian an Mughal kingdoms. The decline of the United States is a popular subject now-- in Washington and also places that are less friendly to American interests. But the networks, when we understand them properly, suggest something very different is possible. In fact they tell us exactly how our most vexing problems--the very problems networks have created--might be solved.

Old style ideas will, however, lead us down dangerous paths. Our leaders today are, as a result, often imperiling us in ways they can't understand. Honestly, these figures are not mentally prepared to fight any sort of battle on this landscape, whether it is against terrorists or income inequality or pandemic diseases. They probably never will be." end quote on the top of page 14 in the first chapter the Masters, of The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo:

Understanding that for example, Trump wants us to return to the 1950s when White men ruled the world. It isn't going to happen mostly because even then that was an illusion. If you just look at China's 1.4 billion people you can see what a joke white men ruling the world is let alone the other 6+ billion people none of which are white except the 1 billion who are white. How can only white people rule the world if they are only 1/7th or 1/8th of the population. And even then if there are 1 billion white people, women and children make up 2/3 of that equation leaving realistically only at most 300 million white men on earth alive right now!

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This might have been a great illusion 150 to 200 years ago but now most of the world has leaders with college educations. This just isn't going to work anymore.

So, you have Trump trying to go back to the 1950s: IMPOSSIBLE!
And you have Hillary trying to take us back to the 1970s: Almost impossible too.

So, neither of our two presidential leaders is actually capable of dealing with all the problems of today. They are respectively 60 to 50 years right now behind the times and not presently capable of leading this nation likely after the 1990s, either one of them!

Why?

Because neither of them actually even understands the real problems of today in a way that actually is going to help us survive any of them!

So, any way you look at it we are on our own more than anything else the next 4 to 8 years because   the government under either of them is not going to solve our problems.

So, unless each of us solves our own problems we won't be around 4 to 8 years from now.

And then if we add world wide jet travel   available now for anyone with a passport and the price of a ticket it becomes even more ridiculous to think that white men are going to rule the world anytime soon ever again.

And this at core is why the Republican party is committing suicide in the last few years. Because there are less and less White Republican men still alive even in the U.S. because white people use birth control because it is financially practical and educationally practical. Otherwise, you wouldn't have so many white people with college educations who actually are critical thinkers now in the world. But, who also often don't' have kids at all until their 30s or 40s which also reduces the number of white people compared to most other groups who don't go to college or to school at all who start to have kids at age 12 to 15 worldwide.

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