Keep in mind that western standards of living are sustained by: Asian manufacturing, middle eastern oil, and west African mineral wealth. Everybody is complicit. That’s the essence of globalization.
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China now joins an elite club of superpowers by virtue of being attributed responsibility for a Big Bad thing. Sinification will join Americanization as a decidedly mixed blessing spreading across the world. We’ll be in this story for a long time. Settle in.
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Reflecting on this stuff is giving me a deeper appreciation of what cosmopolitanism actually is. It’s not jetsetting or invites to Davos or crap like that. It’s about discovering a real humanism by discovering all the real humans. Not armchair values.
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I last wrote about this in 2016. My cartoon was a Zoom screen! Still an unrepentant globalist, and will be one even if none of us leave our homes again ever. You can take the globalist out of the world, but not the world out of the globalist.https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/cosmopolitanism-its-a-beautiful-thing …
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I am possibly wrong on the specific example of Cholera, though I’m skeptical of any definitive theories of historical cases. We just don’t have enough of a historical record.https://twitter.com/adish_war/status/1247766675295850496?s=21 …
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The general parsimonious position I’ll defend is that it is statistics highly unlikely that large populations with a long history have miraculously never produced a pandemic. Every sufficiently populated region has probably produced a few.
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