I participated in a conference call last Sunday evening with George Soros. He is putting out an important book called The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror in which he describes how reality can be manipulated and distorted by political actors, and the consequences of doing so. I enjoyed his comparisons between financial bubbles and political actions, and his discussions of his foundation activities over the past thirty years. Now he's coming into the internet sphere, the new arena of public discourse.
Personally, Soros is... surprisingly cool, a sort of supersmart grandfatherly wise man. Amanda on Rocketboom interviews him here. It's very much worth watching.
I'll be blogging more about the ideas in the book and Soros himself over the next few weeks. His book, along with those of Will Marshall and Peter Beinart, represent a real opportunity to rethink our approach to the world. It's neat that Marshall, Beinart, and now Soros are coming into the blogs to do so.
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