Fri, 06 Apr 2007
Soros - the age of anti-Bush
George Soros, The Age of Fallibility: the concequences
of the War on Terror, Phoenix
George Soros will be known to some as an-ultra
successful financial speculator - one who made several fortunes
in one go when he took on the Brit pound - that being just one
example. These days he spends a lot of money through his
foundation and one of the things he's been spending on has been
getting rid of George W. Bush.
We know now that he didn't make it in the last election and
we also know that it is highly likely that GWB didn't actually
win anything: more like he stole it and the one before... and
the lessons learned from those events seem not to have
penetrated the US political mind - if that's not a contradiction
in terms.
So this book is still, one year later, very relevant.
Soros tkes us through his own philosophy and posits that the
current age of relativism has gone so far from the Age of
Enlightenment as to be fairly useless as any kind of guide. This
ties in nicely with a USA which is similarly lost, and as the
US is the one superpower of the moment, it can also make us
fearful.
The book also refers to some of his money 'sploits which
should appeal to the funds-punks out there.
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