Guns, Germs & Steel: 2009 Edition
If you haven’t read Jared Diamond’s fantastic, explain-all-of-human-history epic book, do yourself a favor and pick it up.
Lately, his theories have been going through my head more than ever given the recent headlines, that ring like odd historical echoes.
As for guns, we have today’s killings at Ft. Hood military base.
In the germs category, the H1N1 virus is ravaging a remote Indian tribe in the Amazon, who, as those described in Diamond’s book, don’t seem very well equipped to fend it off.
Rounding out the trio, steel sales are booming in India.
Here’s a little bit of the television version of Diamond’s master work.
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