Comments by "prism828" (@prism8289) on "Мартин Жак. Чем объясняется восход Китая?" video.

  1. That comes when you throw a huge segment of the population in prison camps. But, ya, the USA is like an old mixture of ingredients that came together to make something fabulous, but are now separating in the jar. At least it is within our structures to adapt. Hopefully. In 1788, our founding fathers wrote the Federalist Papers. In it, they talk about how the union is designed to overcome insurrection from within of the states or internal force. Looking at our Jan 6 Committee now, and that our laws and institutions held for now against a massive inside job to destroy them is pretty profound.
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  2. Perhaps, but sometimes you can go back and find some fundamental underlying truths. First, what if someone wrote a book that the USA would rise to the top of the world? What if they wrote it in 1929? Or in 1861? Next, Paul Kennedy wrote a book in 1987 called The Rise and Fall of the Great Empires. He concludes with the foresights of the relative decline of the USA (mind you, this is peak Reagan time, flag waving and just before the collapse of the Soviet Union). He predicted the Asian Century with the rise of …. Japan. Automobiles, electronics, all of that soaring. Of course, it did not turn out exactly that way as they went into their lost decade. However, he was fundamentally right about the rise of Asia, including the paper tigers. That is pretty phenomenal. So, while it might be impossible to predict the weather and exactly where lightning strikes will hit and precisely how much rain will fall, you can be pretty sure a whole lot of people will get wet in the area. In other words, you can extract valuable insights from what he is saying in principle. Unfortunately, unless you tell people exactly what stock is going to rise and how much and how fast, or whether they will need to wear a light sweater of heavy sweater next Tuesday, or if you favorite team is going to end up as 1st, 5th or 14th and the end of the year, people aren’t interested.
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