Globally Rational

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//If you do a Google search for “rise and fall of the empire”, you’ll get lots of results about the British and Roman empires, and maybe about the Third Reich. You might also see something about the great post-medieval empires, such as those of Spain, France, Portugal, the Ottomans, and the Mughals. There’s […]

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//Most Americans believe what they see on TV, and rightfully so. The following statements are true and the media loves to remind us that they’re true:

Palestinian “freedom fighters” occasionally kill Israelis (they ignore the fact that Israelis kill Palestinian civilians more often than Palestinians kill Israeli civilians).
Pakistanis often riot when the US’s favorite political […]

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//There’s a fact that I’ve always taken for granted; recently, I learned that it’s not common knowledge. It was always so obvious to me that I started to wonder why most people don’t know this.
Did you know that the Middle East is generally impressed with Western culture? People often think that the anti-American […]

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//I came across an interesting article today. In short, it is about a study proving that the world’s most incompetent people are typically unaware of their incompetence. On the contrary, they are usually pretty overconfident.
This is the eternal problem with most democratic societies. We have a series of ignorant people who strongly […]

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//A few days ago, I had the opportunity to fly over four major cities: Kuwait, London, Boston, and New York (in that order). Looking at them from the airplane window, I noticed that the layout of the different cities says a great deal about the many comparisons and contrasts that can be made:
-The outskirts […]

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//I am an optimist without a country and this is my journal.
(by the way, if you’re reading this on facebook, then this is actually a post from my new blog. The actual address is http://optimistworld.blogspot.com/ )
In the US, I am still considered a Pakistani. Despite spending 13 years living here, working here, and […]

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