Mickleby

“And when people commend someone for “thinking for herself” they usually mean “ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.”
― Alan Jacobs, How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

“Can it really be that England became the first industrial nation mainly because bad sanitation and disease kept life exceptionally short for the majority of people, giving the rich and enterprising minority a better chance to pass on their genes?”
― Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

“By 1990 the average American was seventy-three times richer than the average Chinese.17”
― Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

“was China in some sense a victim of its own success – stuck in a ‘high-level equilibrium trap’ by the ability of its cultivators to provide a vast number of people with just enough calories to live?”
― Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest