Jon Evans
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Jon Evans on the currency of technology and the defeat of extremism @ Maisonneuve.
A few years ago, a friend’s intelligent and well-read teenage son saw Hotel Rwanda and said, “I didn’t know they had houses in Africa. I thought they all lived in shacks.” I suspect that was a common reaction. Wars, famines and floods may make for good entertainment, but the media’s relentless portrayal of the developing world as a cauldron of endless disasters is so seriously skewed that most Westerners have no understanding of what life there is really like.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Enter the dismal science. We may not grok other languages or cultures, but everyone understands money. Reducing life to dollars is a massive oversimplification, of course, and can be misleading, but it can also be extremely illustrative. Let’s start with a particularly stark example: the Taliban.
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