ever since a very very cold winter of labwork and radio listening when i heard john ralston saul "the unconscious civilization", i've loved the massey lectures - always great food for thought...
"Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up."
"Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals."
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