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The World is Flat

If Books Could Kill

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The World Is Flat

A lot of these pop science pop Politics books are correct only when you zoom out so far that their thesis is no longer interesting right? So like if the claim is hey look technology is creating a more interconnected world Sure, that is true And that's what Freeman can always fall back on as like the obvious truth underpinning the book. But then it's like it's something that no one needed a book to tell them in 2005, right? It's uh it would be very funny to be friends with one of these like opinion columnists where like every single story you tell at dinner You're like, oh,  it's gonna be in the fucking book right?

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