Book Launch: Ian Goldin: 'Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World' chaired by Nik Gowing

We are at a crossroads. Covid-19 has wreaked havoc but also offers the potential for radical change. Ian Goldin explains why bouncing back to business as usual would be disastrous, leading to escalating inequality, potentially more devastating pandemics and escalating climate change. Drawing on the experience of history, Ian identifies how during the Second World War the welfare state and new world order was created to build more cohesive societies and overcome global threats.

In the book launch for Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, Ian Goldin will show how the pandemic provides a unique opportunity to tackle today’s challenges. The book and his talk examines the impact of the pandemic on the future of jobs, cities, globalisation, governments and businesses. The talk provides an analysis of what is to be done, and shows how the pandemic could lead to a better world.

[JeffersonMartinSynfluent]

When I consider thinking the unthinkable, Herman Kahn comes to mind.

[nickw]

I think it’s interesting how Stephen Bannon has made some perhaps unlikely friends in the Ape Army. Rue, for instance, said that ‘had someone told me a year ago that I’d be talking to Steve Bannon, I would have said they were crazy’ ... so why has she overcome her evident adherence to the ‘Bannon is evil’ narrative of the MSM?

Rue, seems like a nice, and certainly intelligent, young woman, but she is still under the Marxist spell. I’m reminded of the film Shallow Hal... I didn’t watch it all, it’s pretty trashy, so I’m not recommending it, but, as I recall, Hal is only interested in overtly sexy women but he falls under some kind of spell whereby he sees ‘inner beauty’ as external beauty, and vice versa.

So he’s still fundamentally shallow when he falls head over heels with a very obese woman that he perceives as very sexy. However I assume, over the course of time, he does actually genuinely fall in love with this woman on the basis of her ‘inner beauty’. I think the Ape Army has parallels; a lot of people saw the opportunity to beat Wall Street at their own ‘rigged casino’ game... make something, maybe a huge amount, for nothing (which is what all Marxists, like Bernie Sanders, really want). Bannon is very smart of course, he’s the master of shaping narrative (maybe to a fault) he’s straight in there assiduously cultivating the narrative of the ‘little guy’ beating corrupt Wall Street, and it would appear he’s having some success; I think many in the Ape Army, who weren’t conservative, are coming round. 😎🤞🏻