So Fareed Zakaria has a helluva cover story for the latest Newsweek. OR maybe I’m biased because his article overlaps massively with the book that I’ve feebly been attempting to write. The article is sensationally titled “The Post-American World”, but the substance of the article is actually decidedly optimistic.

I’ve been writing since December of 2006. And that’s just in earnest, the idea was born Fall of ‘06. I’m currently on my third restart. The material was at first bad. Then it was good, but ridiculously dry. Now I’m trying to bridge good and readable into a draft 3. If it read like a hundred pages of blog posts that would work for me, but doing that and writing in general has proven to be way harder than almost anything I’ve ever done before. What keeps me constantly attempting to still write? It would have to be articles like this. They’re total validation of the topic and the way I’m looking at what’s coming. I’ve been writing for a little under two years, and in that time, book after book, and article after article has come out that reinforces that the next 25 years (and beyond) are going to be staggering. For America, for China, for India, and for the world at large. We are, no doubt, living through one of the most monumental periods of change. This is interesting. What’s more interesting (and infuriating) is the degree to which my government has been alternating between ignoring what’s going on or actually exacerbating the long-term harm to the American people through their actions. Anyway, I’m hoping to have a strong start to revision number 3 and get back to a rapid-fire delivery schedule on the sections. We’ll see…

And as a side-note, I’m sure everyone has seen Iron Man. Amazing. I love deep, heavy dramas. Those are easily my favorite. But what I also love is just a rip-roaring fun movie. And Iron Man is that to perfection. It’s witty, fast-paced, sharp, and action-packed…I want to see it again. You. Have. To. See. It.