dagblog - Comments for "A Warning from 1992"

I loved Giridharadas' take

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 29 May 2019 17:54:05 +0000

I loved Giridharadas' take-down. These self-important "thought leaders" drive me nuts. Guns, Germs, and Steel was great, but since then...

Ahem

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 29 May 2019 17:51:46 +0000

In reply to Always been interesting to me

Ahem

I have that one. Read it

CVille Dem — Tue, 28 May 2019 21:09:51 +0000

In reply to Still the same old Roosevelt

I have that one. Read it aloud to my husband and we both loved it. I thought you said you wrote another. I learned much more than my husband, but that’s because he knew more than I did to start with. I even have your autograph!!!

Here is a book tour interview

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 28 May 2019 20:01:05 +0000

In reply to Speaking of big broad

Here is a book tour interview by an interviewer who is particularly good.

Speaking of big broad

artappraiser — Tue, 28 May 2019 19:24:31 +0000

In reply to A Warning from 1992

Speaking of big broad geopolitical pictures, and books, I just discovered that a writer famous for both has a new book out. Don't know how I missed that; maybe others did, too. Here is The Guardian's review

Upheaval by Jared Diamond review – how nations cope with crisis

Nativism, complacency, suspicion of neighbours … this timely study warns that democracy is fragile

I see that the NYTimes reviewer sort of panned his whole personal-similar-to-international premise, though: What to Do When You’re a Country in Crisis

Tossed the reviews I

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 28 May 2019 17:33:55 +0000

In reply to Still the same old Roosevelt

Tossed the reviews I remembered over in the Creative Corner - let me know if more.
(should mob flash Amazon, eh?)

http://dagblog.com/arts/man-out-time-unreasonable-men-reviews-28228

Yes such a good point. Also

artappraiser — Tue, 28 May 2019 17:11:12 +0000

In reply to Always been interesting to me

Yes such a good point. Also reminds me of how, as a boomer, much of my attitude towards life as a young adult was informed around economists preaching that it was not possible to have low unemployment and low inflation at the same time, that life would always be affected by one or the other. And that the enormous U.S. debt could never be conquered. And that as the largest generation ever we were so screwed and would continually be fighting to afford things we needed or fighting each other for scarce jobs. Thence came the second Clinton administration. Pfffft....all those things up in smoke. The only constant: change (a nostrum which happens to nicely mimic evolutionary theory.)

Well that's embarrassing -

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 28 May 2019 17:08:25 +0000

In reply to Actually, Lulu's right about

Well that's embarrassing - focused too much on the war itself, & not on Teddy's bio before.
So to be clear, yes, Lulu, you were right - at least about my paragraph 1, possibly the "coincidence" of turning the 1893 coup in Hawaii into a territory in 1898 in paragraph 3.

I'd still question why Spanish imperialists are better than American imperialists, and would say 1898 looks to be the close of America's more traditional land grab imperialism approach - we can debate which conflagrations in the 20th Century are truly imperialist vs. something less say objectionable.

Always been interesting to me

Michael Maiello — Tue, 28 May 2019 14:41:15 +0000

In reply to A Warning from 1992

Always been interesting to me that Japanophobia really peaked there, and so did Japan's stock market, real economy and influence over the U.S. So much of what we now hear about in terms of China (they own all our external debt and could bankrupt us!) is right out of the old Japan script. By the time everyone believed it, it stopped being true.

Along the lines of this essay, I'd recommend taking a look at Robert Reich's "The Work of Nations," which also seems prophetic and is from the same time.

And it raises very strong

Flavius — Tue, 28 May 2019 14:23:51 +0000

In reply to It's drifting off the thread

And it raises very strong questions about the possibility of there ever being a two state solution in Israel.