Conversations with History - Ian Morris

"The Patterns of History"
Ian Morris - Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and History, Stanford University
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Stanford Professor Ian Morris for a discussion of his new book, Why the West Rules - For Now. Professor Morris uses the insights of biology, geography and sociology to identify the essential features and patterns of global history. Focusing on the complex relationship between geography and social development, he emphasizes humanity's capacity to adapt to the changing constraints and opportunities presented over time. He uses these variables to explain the dominance of the West and the rise of the East. He then sketches the future--anticipating, on the one hand, extraordinary changes in social development and, on the other hand, global problems that could mean catastrophe for humanity.
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[@serdarozay5906]

Sr.Ian Morris! Thanks and congratulations for this your book, from Turkey...Only one word: Magnificent!

[@tiannetianne]

Sounds a lot like Jared Diamond's arguments in Guns Germs and Steel.

[@deceiver123m]

@Kellyyu60 Its global federalism that you ought to worry about. Not just asians.

[@Kellyyu60]

Ian took a clumsy ways to explain the inherent menace of NOT having the Asian nibbed at their bud. Afterall there is no significant genetical difference between a western bud and a eastern bud. They have equal ability to turn into trunk of tree given the right environment (geography).

[@lawrence9506]

Kelly Yu IQ people say East Asians are smarter than Whites.