Actually, I fully agree with his point #5. A people will never pull themselves out of a problem if they wait for someone else to do it for them. You see a lot of this in Africa: criticism of the "muzungu" whites...but nostalgia for the better times when whites were running the show. And failure to recognize and honor their own role models, sometimes even running them out of the country because they dare to point a finger at the person in the mirror. (E.g., Baroness Dambisa Moyo, UK, who was essentially run out of Zambia because her economic analysis showed that the national economic strategy was doomed to failure.)
Actually, I fully agree with his point #5. A people will never pull themselves out of a problem if they wait for someone else to do it for them. You see a lot of this in Africa: criticism of the "muzungu" whites...but nostalgia for the better times when whites were running the show. And failure to recognize and honor their own role models, sometimes even running them out of the country because they dare to point a finger at the person in the mirror. (E.g., Baroness Dambisa Moyo, UK, who was essentially run out of Zambia because her economic analysis showed that the national economic strategy was doomed to failure.)