Ideas are inferior to pop songs in one respect: they have no top 40 charts. If they did, the hit single to top the charts for global policy debates for three years running would have been entitled “Sunset in the west”. A plaintive, sometimes despairing tune that knocks western self-confidence, its refrain is that the western world has precious little to be confident about. Like all pop songs, it is a gross simplification of reality.
思想觀點有一點不如流行歌曲：沒有40大思想排行榜。如果有這樣的排行榜的話，有一種觀點會連續三年登上全球策略辯論類排行榜榜首，那就是「西方的沒落」。這是一首悲情、有時帶有絕望色彩的歌曲，動搖著西方人的自信心。它在副歌部分反覆唱道，西方世界值得自信的東西少得可憐。和所有的流行歌曲一樣，它也是對現實的一種粗略簡化。
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