The Rebirth of Industrial Mastery

We have to find our way back to a definite future, and the Western world needs nothing short of a cultural revolution to do it.

The reformers of Emperor Meiji’s Japan, Atatürk’s Turkey and even Lenin’s USSR were evangelists of isomorphism, of catching up, better late than never. In each country, their evangelism sparked a reaction—a nostalgic assertion of the unique soul and spirit of the nation in literature and politics and a denunciation of the cold, heartless logic of m

When it comes to the future of our world, we have lost our way in a fundamental manner, and not just on a few details. We must return to principles, but we do not always have good principles to guide us. We have strayed from the ideals of a society based on prosperity and the rights and liberties of the individual, and we do not know how to return