Looking at the charts...emerging economies are more optimistic. Have the aims of democracy been achieved and the rest of the world is having a delayed benefit?

lol France. Is institutionalized pessimism all that bad...from a standard of life point of view?

Societies that remember and societies that forget. I’ve noticed a tell for this is what’s on their money. Here, the Queen ages. In Guatemala, they have old conquistadores. In China it’s Mao. The blankness of crypto, leaves room to imagine the every person. Do you think collective memory matters for individual choice?

Khaldun, Dewey, Schumpter all wrote about cycles. What kind of short and long cycles do you think we’re apart of?

Antonio Gramsci - Collective societies have a way of overcoming. Think of the last 100 years and its achievements. What do you speculate we’ll overcome in the next 20 years?

Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention tech process and Moore’s law. Technological progress underpins freedom and overrides every form of tyranny. Do you think this is true?