Why the world will never be the same & what we should do about it: Paddy Ashdown at TEDxBrussels

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[PoetryETrain]

Love this, thank you. Paddy Ashdown...

[billmichae]

A smooth talker with deep thoughts from the empty heart.

[AndrewBendelow]

Paddy Ashdown "...we are condemned... to live at one of those moments in history when the (g)ymbols? upon which the established order of power [are set] is beginning to change..." 1x/100 years. Now it's the "globalization of power, " unregulated suits the powerful, but "interconnected, we must "bring governance to the global space, " which will grow increasingly "multi-polar." Iraq & Afghanistan = last western imposition attempt...We now see "the end of 400 years when western-power = enough."

[TheGerogero]

@baudelaire1 What a confusing way to summarise what he's said