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008 - Red Plenty, Part 1

General Intellect Unit

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American Prosperity Is a Very Hierarchical Society

The Soviet kids seem to really value scientific and technical and artistic achievement whereas the Americans are putting across an image of kind of almost banal prosperity where it's just ordinary white picket fence kind of stuff. There is a convergence that kind of happens later in the century that he touches on but it is very interesting that like their stated values and their like exhibited values are completely at odds in both casesYeah it's fantastic and you see the huge contrast between the ambitions for the the two the two super nations and what they kind of what they value yeah Yeah this is a very very hierarchical society as the the author gets into a bit later but anyway so she's she're at this she's at this

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