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About Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNNâs Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time. He is the author of multiple books, including The Post-American World, and In Defense Of A Liberal Education. Several of his books have been New York Best Sellers, and he has also won the National Magazine Award.
Zakaria has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, and he was born in India. He won the India Abroad person of the year in 2008, and he holds honorary degrees from multiple universities, including the University of Miami, Johns Hopkins University, and more.
Introduction
Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World foresees the nature of a post-pandemic world. It considers the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. In his ten âlessons,â Fareed Zakaria invites us to think about how we are truly social animals with community and cooperation embedded in our nature. He also concludes by considering the degree to which nothing is written, and the future is truly in our own hands.
StoryShot #1: The First Lesson is to Buckle Up
Technology has advanced considerably over the last few decades. However, instead of stopping and thinking about how we can keep ourselves safe, we have just continued to expand. Zakaria describes this as humans having built the fastest sports car ever imaginable. However, we are driving it into the unknown with no seatbelts on. We havenât equipped any airbags, and we havenât purchased any insurance. Driving this sports car makes us feel innovative, modern, and powerful, but we do experience crashes along the way. Crucially, these crashes are getting worse with time.
Despite these crashes, we still havenât stopped to consider the safety precautions we require. Instead, we simply pull the vehicle over, tune-up the suspension, and fix the engine. We continue to make our cars faster and faster, and yet we allow ourselves to be left in more profound danger. Zakaria believes the pandemic is an example of a massive crash. We should not continue our unsustainable expansion after the pandemic. Instead, we should use this as an opportunity to contemplate the safety precautions we need to implement. We need to buckle up.
âOutbreaks are inevitable but pandemics are optional.ââ LARRY BRILLIANT, QUOTED BY FAREED ZAKARIA
StoryShot #2: The Second Lesson is to Improve the Quality of Government
StoryShot #3: The Third Lesson is That Markets Do Not Dictate Happiness
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