moses leaves the israelites out of slavery into the desert. only one moment, glenn, in the entire bible does good come down to land, to the top of mt. sinai to give the through moses and that cements this holy relationship between the people, the land and god. that s the heart of the moses story. that s the heart of the american story. that s the heart of the statue of liberty. glenn: what do you say, we get the tax code and put it in the trunk of our car and everybody heads to canada tonight? let s g. back in just a minute.
telephones and skyscrapers and then they said, okay, everybody back. well, they found other jobs for people. one of the interesting things about china, there is a huge problem, which is you can t raise income fist they stay on the land. they tried that. thrfts a aggressive policies about this and it didn t work. have you to move them to cities. they are going to urbanize 300 million people over 30 years. urbanization and you pack people in the city and reporter: because they have the one-child policy and girls are not as good as boys, you have a lot of men in the population that don t have any chance of getting married. that s right. the demographic challenges are immense. i think that s internally, the chinese, precisely because of the history you have described, are very aware of the risks of instability, much more than we are in the united states. glenn: where do you think we are headd? i was talking to somebody and they said, i think we are headed for a world where the chi
well. [chuckles] looking at the character going very, very slow process, even for me. glenn: so you go and you immerse yourself over in china. yeah. glenn: now you are meeting with the highest levels of the leaders over in china, right? yeah. glenn: first of all, are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party? you are over there, you are meeting with them. you and i had a conversation that talk about china in a different way than i have ever heard before. everybody here thinks oh, shine anda, they will never get rid of your debt. for a completely different reason, you and i both agree that china is doesn t want us to fail because they need us for a different reason. they don t want the instability, just like i fear the instability here. you put riots in the streets in this country, everything changes.
why is this narrative to compelling? it s what america has done when we are running at our best and that s what the world demands. survivor is a powerful world, but serendipity is a powerful word. joshua sy point, serendipity is when things happening, making them into an opportunity. it s taking adversity or crisis and finding an opportunity there. so it is not just surviving, but these can be serendipitous eventeds that you turn to your advantage. glenn: i was talking to somebody today, we had some success in something. and they said, oh, it s only going to get better. i said, it may not. this may be the best day i have. and they said, now, why are you so negative? i said, no, no,y no. i am not negative. in my business, this may be the best day that i have, but i know something else will come and it will just be as good, if not better. but i no longer look at
long-term success. i have no idea what tomorrow brings. but that s okay. it s the oldest human story. it is the story of the bible. it s creation and destruction and recreation. god creates the world and adam and eve, he destroys it. he s disappointed with human being, he destroys it with a flood and he starteds over. it s a constant cycle. one of the things that even in this moment of outside the box and of fear and of change is that lots of people have been through this before. and they have and if you look back at human history, it is at the moment of greatest insecurity, dislocation, exile when the great, great truths occur. that s the opportunity that i think we all see. in finding this moment of great. dislocation, i think we all see opportunity for moving forward in a positive way. glenn: i am working on a documentary about the great