dr. bremmer took to acclaim.ert kaplan as well with my book of the summer, "the return of marco polo's world." this is a selection of essays. i highly recommend this to you for the next airplane jaunt. not only will it make you smarter about the caldron that is asia, it will make you smarter about our discourse, america's discourse and the new -- the old discourse with the new eurasia. robert kaplan, you were mentioning earlier the digital stream is almost too much information. samuel huntington at harvard didn't have to worry about presidential tweets, did he? mr. kaplan: no, and when he published "the clash of civilizations," the internet wasn't fully there yet. so there were no tweets, blogs, anything. all of the reactions, while negative in many cases, could be coherent. in the print and typewriter age, you had coherent narratives. people were taught, there were facts. the digital age is about competing narratives where anything can be challenged and that's where truth gets lost. and in an authoritarian syste