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The NBA’s Imperial Impasse
China can’t control the West; the West can’t control China. Will Chinese imperialism or American democracy prevail?
The Great Chinese Firewall or the American Dream?
“What the world needs now, is love sweet love.” — The Sweet Inspirations
What does the world need now? What in the modern world do we lack most?
Previous generations of human beings may have longed for more connection, companionship with people in further and further reaches of the globe.
We have that.
We have the world wide web at our collective fingertips. Travel across vast distances is safer, easier and within reach for more people than ever before.
What ancient philosophers, medieval doctors, early scientists and astronomers would have given for the amount of information freely available instantly to the average U.S. first-grader in 2019, is anyone’s guess.
We don’t have flying cars yet, but we’re living longer and longer. That’s something.
But there are still many things humankind is missing. One of the stickiest is a problem that has plagued humans since we all lived together in mud huts between the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia.