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“So we have this very strange situation that is not set up to benefit all human beings, but to make money for a relatively small number of human beings. And that is an unsustainable system from the perspective of biology. A living system cannot operate exploitatively that way….So we have to shift to what evolution has worked out over billions of years as workable economies.”
Elisabeth Sahtouris, evolution biologist, futurist, author and consultant
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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....
