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“Real intelligence in politics, as in science, is the ability to recognize connections that are not necessarily obvious, to see relationships—seeing the interconnectedness of all life, all peoples, and all wars. Real intelligence is the ability to understand that when you unleash a destructive force in one place, it affects all mankind destructively, including those who unleash it.”
― The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy
― The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy
“WHO has been de facto “weaponized” as an instrumentality of US strategic military policy.”
― Target: China: How Washington and Wall Street Plan to Cage the Asian Dragon
― Target: China: How Washington and Wall Street Plan to Cage the Asian Dragon
“I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human”
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“Bateson proposed that the metaphor of "mother Earth" is no longer accurate or helpful. Human impact on nature is now so complete and irreversible that we're better off thinking of the planet as if it were our first child. It will be here after us. Its future is unknown and uncontrollable. We are forced to plan ahead for it. Our first obligation is to keep it from harm. We are learning from it how to be decent parents.”
― SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking
― SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking
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