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Richard Merrick
Apr 04, 2019
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Right now in the UK, we are preoccupied with what will be seen in retrospect as no big deal. For the last 50 years we have been sat in a liminal space between being a country with an empire, which we believed we had a right to, and whatever we are going to be next.

In this liminal period, we have assembled all the ingredients of what we will be next - technology, diversity, enforced humility and the like and although some think this is a loss, more know it's a natural system.

We could of course fall by the wayside - none of us have a right to prosperity - but it is far more likely that we will become a differently powerful force in the world. Not through some ego trip of trade deals and independence, but through an understanding of what our past has given us, what our future requires, and an awareness of who we are becoming.

We have been shaped by the generations behind us, just as we are shaping the ones emerging now. They have to be different form us - it's called progress and evolutio…

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