Re:In Pursuit of PPE
by gumby on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:36PM
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> I don't like many points of that guy called Neil Fergusson makes, but he is 100% on the spot pointing that the West is loosing the "institutional IQ" after 20 to 30 years of "ultrapopulism" in government.
By the way Neil Ferguson is a mathematical biologist at Imperial College, London who was instrumental in getting the UK government to change directions.
Niall Ferguson (also from the UK though currently at Harvard) is a historian. He is an excellent and insightful observer (especially his earlier work) but like you I often find he ends up drawing the wrong conclusions.
I think the West's democratic model of loosely fitting parts (yes, even in a country like France) permits greater resilience against various threats....but permits is not the same as guarantees!
By the way Neil Ferguson is a mathematical biologist at Imperial College, London who was instrumental in getting the UK government to change directions.
Niall Ferguson (also from the UK though currently at Harvard) is a historian. He is an excellent and insightful observer (especially his earlier work) but like you I often find he ends up drawing the wrong conclusions.
I think the West's democratic model of loosely fitting parts (yes, even in a country like France) permits greater resilience against various threats....but permits is not the same as guarantees!