No this is not a post about how Europeans label month and day opposite of Americans. This is something I thought of listening to The World is Flat by Thomas L Friedman. It has been a boring listen so far. The author takes too long to make a point. Also, at 2.5 hrs in, nothing in the book cannot be discerned from the book jacket and title.
Friedman raises the idea that flattening of the world was made possible by three events. One of which was the Fall of the Berlin Wall, which occurred on Nov 9, 1989. I thought that it was ironic that the end of the spirit of freedom in US occurred On Sept 11, 2001, when the WTC was destroyed
11/9 and 9/11, what ironic symmetry.
PS: it was just under twelve years between the two events, corresponding to the number of years in Chinese Astrological cycle
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