Circular thoughts, memories

Just a quick note of some context-specific things that may turn into a short piece:

- Lack of land reform begets poverty, lack of education, crime, corruption, a collapse of institutions, which in turn beget religious extremism

- 'China is modernising, not Westernising.' That was the phrase I used to open a briefing to a bunch of execs several years ago. I wonder, that in the battle of ideas that is required when bullets are pointless, whether the vocabulary needs to be adjusted

Much of what is above won't make sense to you, sorry. They're just notes for me.