I picked up the telephone and dialed a small shop in a little town on the other side of the continent.  After a friendly conversation, I gave the fellow my credit card number.  A few days later, a package arrived with the item I had ordered.  Isn't that extraordinary? At the time, I really didn't think the event was unusual.  I had engaged in transactions like that many times before.  The web makes it easy to find things.   But this really was extraordinary.  There are few places in the world where such a transaction is possible.  In the Western Hemisphere, this can happen only in the U.S. and Canada.  Actually, I did not realize the significance of that transaction until Jordan Peterson, in one of his lectures, pointed it out.  My experience was possible only in a culture of trust.  Trust is maybe the most distinguishing feature of liberal Western...(Read Full Article)