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15 Nov 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
“There’s a three volume one by a guy called Oto Pflanze done in the 80sm, I think.”
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- Dominic Cummings
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- 15 Nov 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Yeah, that’s such a great analogy. Why is there not a definitive biography of Bismarck out there? Well, I would say there is really. There’s a three volume one by a guy called Oto Pflanze done in the 80sm, I think. Not very well known, but it’s by far the best. Okay, big picture. What is the cause of Britain no longer being the global superpower it once was? Is it decolonization? Post war socialism? Is it the war itself? The productivity stuff started happening after 2005, but people have been talking about England declining for a long time. What is the big picture cause of that?…
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