This is especially interesting to me -- that the collective mentality of a people, first of all, is a real thing. And that it can really influence how the cou

This is especially interesting to me -- that the collective mentality of a people, first of all, is a real thing. And that it can really influence how the country itself evolves. And whether it can feed back on itself in bad ways and produce cycle of people and government and culture that lock a country into a bad situation...