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279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History

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Why the West Rules for Now - What Do You Think?

I wanted to ask you a couple of other questions based on your previous books, before we dive into the new one. What are your thoughts on the united states, u k, europe and the west in the context of the rise of china and russia's, you know, recent rabanchism and so on? Ye, that's an interesting question to ask, in the ay of anybody who writes a book that has implications about where things might be going next. And i guess in that book, that was wher i started developing, thinking about what history might tell us about the future. The general conclusion i came to there was that, on history, history's not a

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