I listened to "Prophets of Doom" and am currently listening to "American Peril." Blueprint is the next one I'm going to listen too. I thought the American one would be a good
precursor to "Blueprint" because it might set the table for American/European conditions/mindsets/etc pre-WWI in the Spanish/American war.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.”
-Robert Heinlein
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