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Book: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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  1. Jared Diamond _ Upheaval: Turning Points for

    Yet we promise developing countries that, if they will only adopt good policies, like honest government and free market economies, they too can become like the First World today. That promise is utterly impossible, a cruel hoax. We are already having difficulty supporting a First World lifestyle even now, when only 1 billion people out of the world's 7.5 billion people enjoy it.
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  2. Jared Diamond _ Upheaval: Turning Points for

    success is not guaranteed to well-intentioned decent people, nor necessarily denied to evil people."
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  3. Jared Diamond _ Upheaval: Turning Points for

    For example, the great Italian Jewish author Primo Levi, who did survive Auschwitz, said afterwards, "The experience of Auschwitz for me was such as to sweep away whatever legacies of my religious education that I had retained. There is Auschwitz, therefore God cannot exist. I haven't found a solution to that dilemma.
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  4. Jared Diamond _ Upheaval: Turning Points for

    Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim.
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  5. Jared Diamond _ Upheaval: Turning Points for

    Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibility can come from the freedom of having been allowed to make one's own choices as one was growing up.
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  6. Jared Diamond _ Upheaval: Turning Points for

    Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted {"Brexit"} about its role in Europe. But Britain is still among the world's six richest nations, is still a parliamentary democracy under a figurehead monarch, is still a world leader in science and technology, and still maintains as its currency the pound sterling rather than the euro
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  7. Jared Diamond _ Upheaval: Turning Points for

    It's neither possible nor desirable for individuals or nations to change completely, and to discard everything of their former identities. The challenge, for nations as for individuals in crisis, is to figure out which parts of their identities are already functioning well and don't need changing, and which parts are no longer working and do need changing.
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