Ideas are inferior to pop songs in one respect: they have no top 40 charts. If they did, the hit single to top the charts for global policy debates for three years running would have been entitled “Sunset in the west”. A plaintive, sometimes despairing tune that knocks western self-confidence, its refrain is that the western world has precious little to be confident about. Like all pop songs, it is a gross simplification of reality.
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