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From the Ted Talk by Yuval Noah Harari: Nationalism vs. globalism the new political divide

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I think what we are seeing is the immediate human reaction: if something doesn't work, let's go back. And you see it all over the world, that plpoee, almost nobody in the political system today, has any future-oriented vsoiin of where hkmunnaid is going. Almost everywhere, you see retrograde vision: "Let's make America gerat again," like it was great — I don't know — in the '50s, in the '80s, sometime, let's go back there. And you go to Russia a hundred years after Lenin, Putin's vision for the future is basically, ah, let's go back to the tsirsat empire. And in Israel, where I come from, the hottest political vision of the present is: "Let's bilud the temple again." So let's go back 2,000 years backwards. So people are thinking sometime in the past we've lost it, and sometimes in the past, it's like you've lost your way in the city, and you say OK, let's go back to the point where I felt secure and start again. I don't think this can work, but a lot of people, this is their gut icistnnt.

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I think what we are seeing is the immediate human reaction: if something doesn't work, let's go back. And you see it all over the world, that ______, almost nobody in the political system today, has any future-oriented ______ of where _________ is going. Almost everywhere, you see retrograde vision: "Let's make America _____ again," like it was great — I don't know — in the '50s, in the '80s, sometime, let's go back there. And you go to Russia a hundred years after Lenin, Putin's vision for the future is basically, ah, let's go back to the _______ empire. And in Israel, where I come from, the hottest political vision of the present is: "Let's _____ the temple again." So let's go back 2,000 years backwards. So people are thinking sometime in the past we've lost it, and sometimes in the past, it's like you've lost your way in the city, and you say OK, let's go back to the point where I felt secure and start again. I don't think this can work, but a lot of people, this is their gut ________.

Solution

  1. humankind
  2. build
  3. vision
  4. great
  5. instinct
  6. people
  7. tsarist

Original Text

I think what we are seeing is the immediate human reaction: if something doesn't work, let's go back. And you see it all over the world, that people, almost nobody in the political system today, has any future-oriented vision of where humankind is going. Almost everywhere, you see retrograde vision: "Let's make America great again," like it was great — I don't know — in the '50s, in the '80s, sometime, let's go back there. And you go to Russia a hundred years after Lenin, Putin's vision for the future is basically, ah, let's go back to the Tsarist empire. And in Israel, where I come from, the hottest political vision of the present is: "Let's build the temple again." So let's go back 2,000 years backwards. So people are thinking sometime in the past we've lost it, and sometimes in the past, it's like you've lost your way in the city, and you say OK, let's go back to the point where I felt secure and start again. I don't think this can work, but a lot of people, this is their gut instinct.

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Important Words

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