Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

Every person should listen to this podcast. It’s so incredibly enlightening. So hilarious that Sharon Stone says that Americans are not educated. Perhaps, Hollywood is not educated.

Jeffrey Sach’s interviews are eye-opening and insightful, offering a fuller view of today’s geopolitical problems. The information provided is historical facts that are conveniently left out of the conversation in the mainstream media. If every US citizen and resident listened to these podcasts, we may be able to avoid being involved in more disastrous, unnecessary wars and massacres.

This podcast is annoying to listen to at times, especially when there’s a female author as guest. Jeffrey Sachs talks way too much! Mansplaining. Talking over guest. Ask more questions & let your guest talk more. I noticed this in one other podcast with female guest too. You let the males talk more, talking over the females. The author is the expert on the subject matter, not you.

Important to note the Marxist dialectic pedagogical paradigm that skews Mainland scholarship , even with the best of intentions. Namely, excess emphasis on “them vs us”; “East vs West” and a related unwillingness to publicly expose (share) China’s weaknesses. As some one who has lived in China for over 30 years as corporate lawyer , writer, and small business owner, the day-to-day problems are rarely discussed. Here you go: China’s borders are porous, with multiple challenges with all of its neighbors. This is China’s main preoccupation. Secondly, annual and chronic environmental disasters many of its own making . Third, rising inflation with insufficient economic tools to stem inflation’s growth . China’s ancient history is often used as a diversion to mask present day problems. China’s post 1949 education system is less than ideal; this comment is also a taboo and not subject to open debate and not easily changed. But easily evidenced by the “tsunami” level of Mainland Chinese studying abroad.