- Yeah. Yeah, that... I could not agree more. There are some problems with, ... then he does the good statecraft and state building and then becomes, I mean, European. In one life, he goes through the full journey.
jobbing at the time. application of power as applied to statecraft and how that might be different than predecessors or successors.
Evgeny Morozov: and the power of the Internet. I mean I spent some time analyzing Hillary Clinton's big speech last year on Internet freedom. Steve Grove: On 21st century statecraft . Evgeny Morozov: Well I mean technically it was a speech on Internet freedom and she did another speech on 21st century statecraft --
to neutralize that threat. So, the United States track record in Iran for the last 40 or 50 years is abysmal when it comes to intelligence and when it comes to statecraft . And so, there's that legacy, number one. Number two, October 7th, 2023, the Hamas attack against Israel changed the dynamic entirely. That attack surprised Israeli
So Machiavelli, of course, he does not say this, but he's the kind of political philosopher who thinks the idea of a science of politics is ridiculous because politics is actually all about statecraft . It's not about institutions about which you might have rules and even predictions and it might begin to look like a science.
And the child could then come to inherit both crowns-- come to rule both kingdoms. So the human imperatives of pair bonding and reproduction became tools of statecraft at sort of a much higher level within society. Now, we can think of many different notable royal families from history-- of the Bourbons in France, the Tudors in England,
one now my panchali is not good at any of these traditional things and she's not that interested in them she really wants to learn what her brother is learning she wants to learn statecraft she wants to learn you know about the world the larger world around her and she feels like she's not being given that opportunity anyhow she's growing up
Steve Grove: On 21st century statecraft . Evgeny Morozov: Well I mean technically it was a speech on Internet freedom and she did another speech on 21st century statecraft -- Steve Grove: Oh, okay.
He's met the leaders of Western Europe of the time. He really has. And they all, of course, reappear in the pages of "The Prince." Louis XII, typical Frenchman, doesn't understand statecraft . Julius II, bonkers. Maximilian-- hopeless, useless emperor, never can decide anything, doesn't know what he's doing.
And science is one of the four great arenas that we found in our recent enlightenment that empower us to find our mistakes before they become lethal. If you look across the last 6,000 years of history, it's been one relentless litany of horrible errors of statecraft and delusions of grandeur, or delusions of impotence, delusions that have left a trail of lost potential across thousands