was about the breakdown of the neoliberal order and the move to something new. And so I think about that in the context of your befuddlement, mine as well, at the changing of the rules that occurred, our naivete at politicians' willingness to change rules that we thought were so bedrock and fundamental in domestic policy that impacted the economy in 2008. And I think we are now seeing something similar in the international arena. And speaking for me personally, I grew up, I mean, Gulf War I, which I identify as the commencement point for the New World Order and the internationalization of neoliberalism. This was of course, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet communism. I was 10 years old then. So I grew up in this world and I took many things for granted. And so my sensibilities were assaulted in 2008. And I think that in many ways, like we're living in the revenge of today in the world, the revenge of politics, the revenge of geopolitics, of national (19/45)
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