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A review by paladintodd
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
5.0
It's a bit of a surface skim than a deep dive so not my favorite Lewis book, still pretty chilling enlightening stuff.
Loved the parts were he explained some potential disaster to end it with an asterisk to a footnote that simply says "and that's exactly what they did".
One problem I had that I don't think he address: He gives lots of praise to the folks working in government and how they are all mission driven, yet the Trump admin is so easily able to dismantle what they do. You'd think they would defend their mission more than they have? Or maybe they are, and just as Republicans are dismantling important things without us knowing about it, there are others protecting it that we don't know about.
The last paragraph was particularly good (kind wish this story had been at the beginning to frame everything to come rather than putting a bow on the end): The old lady who had wished for 10 years for a tornado to come destroy her barn - because that's where her husband had committed suicide. What she hadn't considered was that the tornado would also take her house. What a perfect metaphor for the Trumpian "burn it all down" mindset or the Republican "I've got mine". They totally lack the ability and empathy to see the harm they wish on others may well fall on them as well.
Loved the parts were he explained some potential disaster to end it with an asterisk to a footnote that simply says "and that's exactly what they did".
One problem I had that I don't think he address: He gives lots of praise to the folks working in government and how they are all mission driven, yet the Trump admin is so easily able to dismantle what they do. You'd think they would defend their mission more than they have? Or maybe they are, and just as Republicans are dismantling important things without us knowing about it, there are others protecting it that we don't know about.
The last paragraph was particularly good (kind wish this story had been at the beginning to frame everything to come rather than putting a bow on the end): The old lady who had wished for 10 years for a tornado to come destroy her barn - because that's where her husband had committed suicide. What she hadn't considered was that the tornado would also take her house. What a perfect metaphor for the Trumpian "burn it all down" mindset or the Republican "I've got mine". They totally lack the ability and empathy to see the harm they wish on others may well fall on them as well.