Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.
China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.
Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organizations that require a high degree of social co-operation.
In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master.
The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared.
The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.
What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such ... That is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
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