simply wouldn't have been culturally possible in Texas or Southern Italy or Brazil or Italy. And that if the Asian technocracies, to a certain extent, may have done well, and I'm not in any respect trying to gloss over the problems in China's response, for example, but the countries that did the worst were clearly the ones that were run by the wave of populist regimes that had taken power over the last decade, United States, Brazil, India, I've mentioned, the UK, Russia. And that one of the lessons to be drawn from this, which should have been obvious, is that populist politics emphasis on narrative, on cultural narrative, the idea that a constructed narrative as a way of understanding how the world works, how political power might be organized, simply doesn't work. That ultimately, an underlying reality, a biological reality, a biochemical reality, an epidemiological reality that is indifferent to social construction will ultimately have its day. And I think that's what we saw. How (7/42)
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