The Gods Must Be Crazy II: A Rooseveltian Renaissance for Trump 2.0 American Renewal in the Chinese AI Century
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Ay Yi Yai Yi! It’s halftime, America!
Welcome to the intermission of empire, featuring interpretive dances by decaying institutions choreographed by lobbyists holding MBAs in short-termism.
Like the infamous Coke bottle in The Gods Must Be Crazy, today's techno-totems—quantum AI supremacy, sovereign digital currencies, and China's Belt-and-Data colonialism—have crash-landed onto our meticulously manicured lawns. Initially celebrated as symbols of progress, these shiny artifacts now function as civilization’s Rorschach tests, exposing strategic confusion and institutional amnesia as we outsource national strategy to TikTok algorithms.
Part satirical lament, part Rooseveltian call-to-arms, The Gods Must Be Crazy 2.0 dissects an empire that has gamified governance and pawned its industrial soul, where frogs leisurely simmer in debt-flavored snake oil and intellectual property vultures patiently circle overhead.
Meanwhile, China silently installs the firmware of global dominance, algorithmically colonizing over a hundred nations via its Belt and Road initiatives. While their emissaries calmly present invoices in Confucian grace, America passionately debates cartoon politics and the semantic nuances of infrastructure.
This book revives the Roosevelt Doctrine—not as nostalgic reverie, but as a policy defibrillator—to reclaim capitalist innovation, restore institutional competence, and resist digital authoritarianism before history enshrines us as a cautionary meme.
The whistle's about to blow, and the scorekeeper is toggling to Mandarin.
Ay Yi Yai Yi! We are in the middle of the New World Order!
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The ultimate contrarian insider. From Kerala communist classrooms to Fortune 10 boardrooms to geopolitical war rooms. This Clinton Global Initiative Fellow and BIG4 Financial transformation architect (30+ years, 40+ countries) is also a Kala Sreshta laureate, excelling in ancient Theyyam rituals. He's your strategic Virgil through the digital inferno-part mythmaker, part McKinsey, all maverick. Started his contrarian Investment Banking expedition three decades ago with Anand Rathi (ex-Bombay Stock Exchange President).
Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/
Kala Sreshta (Most Accomplished Artist) award recipient. Author of a dozen best sellers, “The Gods of The Gods’ Own Country” and " The Gods Must Be Crazy! in ~20 Languages. Graduate of Clinton Global Initiative GIFT (Global Institute for Tomorrow) Young Leadership program in China (Hong Kong & Cambodia) and the Master's in Leadership from PMI's CCL patterned executive leadership programs. TOGAF9 certified EPM & ERP Architect of Enterprise Performance with over two-decade-long experience in numerous industries through Ernst & Young global clients and beyond. Published and presented >50 papers globally, including Architecting the future state strategic ERP & EPM business system road map to Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), BOT's, etc. Contributed to all five major PMI Books/standards (PMBOK, OPM3, P&PM, and PMCD) based on experience with the ERP & EPM global implementations. Architect of Team India Movement, which transformed ASIA-PAC as the PMI's most strategic region forever.
The ultimate contrarian insider. From Kerala communist classrooms to Fortune 10 boardrooms to geopolitical war rooms. This Clinton Global Initiative Fellow and BIG4 Financial transformation architect (30+ years, 40+ countries) is also a Kala Sreshta laureate, excelling in ancient Theyyam rituals. He's your strategic Virgil through the digital inferno-part mythmaker, part McKinsey, all maverick. Started his contrarian Investment Banking expedition three decades ago with Anand Rathi (ex-Bombay Stock Exchange President).
Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/
Kala Sreshta (Most Accomplished Artist) award recipient. Author of a dozen best sellers, “The Gods of The Gods’ Own Country” and " The Gods Must Be Crazy! in ~20 Languages. Graduate of Clinton Global Initiative GIFT (Global Institute for Tomorrow) Young Leadership program in China (Hong Kong & Cambodia) and the Master's in Leadership from PMI's CCL patterned executive leadership programs. TOGAF9 certified EPM & ERP Architect of Enterprise Performance with over two-decade-long experience in numerous industries through Ernst & Young global clients and beyond. Published and presented >50 papers globally, including Architecting the future state strategic ERP & EPM business system road map to Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), BOT's, etc. Contributed to all five major PMI Books/standards (PMBOK, OPM3, P&PM, and PMCD) based on experience with the ERP & EPM global implementations. Architect of Team India Movement, which transformed ASIA-PAC as the PMI's most strategic region forever.
The ultimate contrarian insider. From Kerala communist classrooms to Fortune 10 boardrooms to geopolitical war rooms. This Clinton Global Initiative Fellow and BIG4 Financial transformation architect (30+ years, 40+ countries) is also a Kala Sreshta laureate, excelling in ancient Theyyam rituals. He's your strategic Virgil through the digital inferno-part mythmaker, part McKinsey, all maverick. Started his contrarian Investment Banking expedition three decades ago with Anand Rathi (ex-Bombay Stock Exchange President).
Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/
Kala Sreshta (Most Accomplished Artist) award recipient. Author of a dozen best sellers, “The Gods of The Gods’ Own Country” and " The Gods Must Be Crazy! in ~20 Languages. Graduate of Clinton Global Initiative GIFT (Global Institute for Tomorrow) Young Leadership program in China (Hong Kong & Cambodia) and the Master's in Leadership from PMI's CCL patterned executive leadership programs. TOGAF9 certified EPM & ERP Architect of Enterprise Performance with over two-decade-long experience in numerous industries through Ernst & Young global clients and beyond. Published and presented >50 papers globally, including Architecting the future state strategic ERP & EPM business system road map to Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), BOT's, etc. Contributed to all five major PMI Books/standards (PMBOK, OPM3, P&PM, and PMCD) based on experience with the ERP & EPM global implementations. Architect of Team India Movement, which transformed ASIA-PAC as the PMI's most strategic region forever.
The ultimate contrarian insider. From Kerala communist classrooms to Fortune 10 boardrooms to geopolitical war rooms. This Clinton Global Initiative Fellow and BIG4 Financial transformation architect (30+ years, 40+ countries) is also a Kala Sreshta laureate, excelling in ancient Theyyam rituals. He's your strategic Virgil through the digital inferno-part mythmaker, part McKinsey, all maverick. Started his contrarian Investment Banking expedition three decades ago with Anand Rathi (ex-Bombay Stock Exchange President).
Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/
Kala Sreshta (Most Accomplished Artist) award recipient. Author of a dozen best sellers, “The Gods of The Gods’ Own Country” and " The Gods Must Be Crazy! in ~20 Languages. Graduate of Clinton Global Initiative GIFT (Global Institute for Tomorrow) Young Leadership program in China (Hong Kong & Cambodia) and the Master's in Leadership from PMI's CCL patterned executive leadership programs. TOGAF9 certified EPM & ERP Architect of Enterprise Performance with over two-decade-long experience in numerous industries through Ernst & Young global clients and beyond. Published and presented >50 papers globally, including Architecting the future state strategic ERP & EPM business system road map to Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), BOT's, etc. Contributed to all five major PMI Books/standards (PMBOK, OPM3, P&PM, and PMCD) based on experience with the ERP & EPM global implementations. Architect of Team India Movement, which transformed ASIA-PAC as the PMI's most strategic region forever.
