And now, astonishingly, the Brits are performing their own end-of-civilization act with Brexit, totally unable to grasp even a fraction of the consequences of this monumentally stupid act of self-harming isolation. Just goes to show that the only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history.
Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.
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