We are coming to the end of our time, and i did want to ask you, it seems an especially good question to put to somebody who has thought as long and hard as you have about how we got here. I'm just wondering if, if you're able to hold on to much in the way of optimism or argue with. Helen thompson's book is disorder. It's out now from oxford university press. You've been listening to intelligence squared. Get your galaxy tab essayed ultra now it sam song dot com.

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