Satish Mishra

Economist, entrepreneur and strategist; CEO Strategic Asia Indonesia and Chair SA Institute, Bali. Oxbridge trained. 40 countries, 35 yrs, OECD/WB/UN/Govt.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

Trump shows how vulnerable we remain to big lies, repeated without conscience or care for the truth. Suddenly one man with great power and little integrity can set us on the road to political and social decline.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

In a world run by plutocracy migration to Mars by the super rich may not be a such a bad thing after all.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

I am told there are two trillion galaxies in the known universe and billions of stars in each of them. Many times more than grains of sand on earth. And in the midst of it all a handful of human beings scheming, and jostling and pulling each other to shreds without sense or soul.

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@ianbremmer Bremmer’s list speaks for it self. There are not many lists as telling as this one. The US has been trying to undermine the UN for years, but doing it in such a petty way is an interesting new departure even for the Trump administration.

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Will modern man become the Homo Deus by defeating death and merging humans with machines? Can a world in which a very very few live to be 500 continually filling their minds with new ideas and memories and confidence as the rest degenerate into irrelevance, ever be sustainable?

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

The death of Stephen Hawking: shows that even death is not inevitable if one can move the world in mind, and spirit and heart. What epitaphs will be written about Hawking in future centuries, in faraway planets around distant stars; and by people who knew him only by name.

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Does Tilerson’s departure spell the unshackling of Trump or merely another act of Modern day Caligula in which everything is possible and nothing is forgiven. No wonder Caligula came to a bad end destroyed by the very forces that elevated him to emperorship.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

The death of Stephen Hawking: only goes to show that even death is not inevitable when one moves the world in mind and spirit and heart as so few are destined to do. What epitaphs would be written about Hawking in the coming centuries, and in so many planets?

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

One belt one road is the new Chinese mantra. But where will it go and whom will it encircle?

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

Indonesia's big infrastructure push: can it change anything without changing every thing.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

Trump says he has a great relationship with Duerte. And with Putin and with Xi and with Kim the Rocket. Such popularity, such deception.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

What happens to ISIS after Raqqa is not just a question of military tactics but of strategic policy. Need to Marshall the best to end ISIS.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

Clash between civilisation requires defining civilisation. Major wars of the 20th C within the West not between it and the Rest.

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Same point made by Martin Wolf in @FT: clash within the West more serious than between the West and the Rest'. Implications for policy?

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

Martin Wolf in @FT today: notion of 'Pluto populism'? Can plutocracy ever be populist? Or by design elitist, authoritarian and restricted.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

@InPlay88 @PoliticalIslam The history of the entire world is full of rulers who use religion for brute governance.

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@InPlay88 @PoliticalIslam a bit like Catholics burning witches and heretics at the stake I suppose.

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@InPlay88 @PoliticalIslam All so much Covfefe to me I am afraid. I suspect to million others too.

[Satish Mishra @scm1950]

WW2 ended with Cold War. Will Raqqa end with Assad's fall or a new rise? Brace for uncertain battles with new combatants in an unknown war!

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@InPlay88 @PoliticalIslam sounds like the Jesuits or the Sadhus or the Buddhist monks and all the rest.