http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/taking_odds_on_americas_collapse.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/taking_odds_on_americas_collapse.html#comment-20971 kasia Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:54:31 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2578#comment-20971 And we encourage religious segregation. There should be no religion, just good scientific education with lots of room for arts and sports. And we encourage religious segregation. There should be no religion, just good scientific education with lots of room for arts and sports.

]]> http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/taking_odds_on_americas_collapse.html#comment-20578 Amrendra Kumar Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:13:59 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=2578#comment-20578 Jared Diamond makes the point that for a society to be resilient the incentives of elites ( The rich and the Political Class) should be aligned. It sounds very obvious, I can see the parallel everywhere. The public education system in India and elsewhere is broken because the elites do no send their kids to these school. Jared Diamond makes the point that for a society to be resilient the incentives of elites ( The rich and the Political Class) should be aligned. It sounds very obvious, I can see the parallel everywhere. The public education system in India and elsewhere is broken because the elites do no send their kids to these school.

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