“What I foresee is that in the future, the stories will be discovered from below: By the citizens themselves. They will say: This is important for our city. This is a story I like. So we do it for ourselves. And gradually, people will come as tourists and watch, and hopefully after sometime they will take part. Storytelling sets themes, yes. But not invent a story. Discovered stories, that are developed by citizens themselves. Not from up there. No, from below.”
Rolf Jensen, CIO dreamcompany and author
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage)
by Walter Russell Mead
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Isbn-13: 9780375713736
A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed....
