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The Blue Model: Rise and Fall

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

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The Blue Model Industrial Capitalist Society Is Corrosive of Cultural Capital

The information revolution is eroding the economic basis of the blue model economy. The decay that comes with a consumer focused mass production, mass consumption economy is making us less capable to manage to keep up the framework of the old economy. So we've got this, so we're back in the kind of chaos of economic changes and social and cultural changes up overturning our institutions and our ways of life. And like our predecessors during the Industrial Revolution, we don't have the answers to a lot of the problems that we confront. We're groping. Hopefully, we'll find something like they did an upgraded form of a social model that takes advantage of the wealth that the information revolution produces to address

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