The New Empire Of Debt: The Rise And Fall Of An Epic Financial Bubble - Plot & Excerpts
“Been there, done that,” the shades whisper again. “You think you’re so smart . . . ,” they continue, and then the spooks laugh so hard they can’t finish the sentence. There are a number of theories of history. Hegel,Vico, Spengler; destiny, dialectic, the clash of civilizations. They are a penny a dozen, and still overpriced. “The history of the world is but the biography of great men,”46 was Thomas Carlyle’s small-change addition to the genre. He thought individual men had a decisive effect. But not only do people come to think what they must think when then need to think it, they also do what they must do. Then, they imagine that it is they who control history, and not the other way around. “Encourage your enemy to expend his energy in futile quests while you conserve your strength.When he is exhausted and confused, you attack with energy and purpose.”47 This is from an ancient Chinese text known as the Thirty-Six Stratagems or 36 Strategies first published in the western world by Harro von Senger.
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