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The unipolar-era logic of making things as cheap, fast, and profitable as possible for the broadest market.
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The unipolar-era logic of making things as cheap, fast, and profitable as possible for the broadest market.
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The new world is governed by an adapt-or-die logic: some will survive, most will not, because the ordering principle changes from efficiency and profit to resilience against repeated crises.
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Efficiency imagines the best case and extracts profit; resilience imagines the worst case and asks whether a society can survive it.
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"...has happened is we have to move from an emphasis on efficiency to... Resilience. Okay? That is the main goal in the future. Today,..."
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"The idea of efficiency is, let's imagine the best case scenario and try to make as much money out of it as possible. Okay?..."
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"...mean. They're extremely efficient. The only way you can achieve this efficiency is through constant innovation. So the Vikings are constantly always thinking about..."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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