You Really Struggle To Be A Successful

For 500 Years The West Patented Six Killer Applications That Set It Apart. The First To Download Them Was Japan. Over The Last Century, One Asian Country After Another Has Downloaded These Killer Apps- Competition, Modern Science, The Rule Of Law And Private Property Rights, Modern Medicine, The Consumer Society And The Work Ethic. Those Six Things Are The Secret Sauce Of Western Civilization.

Between 1980 And 2000 The Number Of Patents Registered In Israel Was 7652 Compared With 367 For All The Arab Countries Combined.

The West May Collapse Very Suddenly. Complex Civilizations Do That, Because They Operate, Most Of The Time, On The Edge Of Chaos.

A Historian Is Battling All The Time To Remember As Much As Possible.

The British Press Has An Insatiable Appetite For Making Public Things That Should Be Private. It's A Prurience That I've Never Understood.