Thus, here are the things to think about to get ready.Īnd I ask Why is this book worth our time? Here are my three reasons for this book: The key ending is this: globalization is ending. In my synopses, I always begin with What is the point of the book? Here is the point for this book: The world as we have known it is ending. This is, to put it mildly, a book worth reading. I presented my synopsis of this book at the September First Fiday Book Synospsis, our monthly business-book focused event in Dallas.
In other words, “the world is flat” may no longer be an accurate description as our world unflattens. That warning is that the comfortable, plentiful, everything-available in a pretty-much-always-available world that we have shared in recent decades is coming to an end. What I hated was the warning it has throughout the book. But, it is well written, genuinely informative, clear, engaging. So, when I read The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan, I felt lucky. (To be honest, many business books are books that are not…all…that…engaging, even though they have important information). When I read a nonfiction/business book that I can’t put down because it is so engaging, I feel like I have won the lottery. Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization The past several decades haven’t been an American Century. The entire concept of the Order is that the United States disadvantages itself economically in order to purchase the loyalty of a global alliance. Not only despite the global churn and degradation, but also in many cases because of it, the United States will largely escape the carnage to come. How do the things we know and understand about food and money and fuel and movement and widgets and the stuff we dig out of the ground change? Grow, rearrange. What the world we are all going to live through is going to feel like. Instead, the purpose of this book is to lay out what our transition looks like. …The 2020s will see a collapse of consumption and production and investment and trade almost everywhere. Which is a poetic way of saying this era, this world-our world-is doomed. Since 1945 the world has been the best it has ever been.
A moment that will certainly not come again in our lifetimes. The period of 1980–2015 in particular has simply been a unique, isolated, blessed moment in time. What you and your parents (and in some cases, grandparents) assumed as the normal, good, and right way of living-that is, the past seven decades or so-is a historic anomaly for the human condition both in strategic and demographic terms. Because the world-our world-is breaking apart. Instead of cheap and better and faster, we’re rapidly transitioning into a world that’s pricier and worse and slower. The world of the past few decades has been the best it will ever be in our lifetime.
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