如今，与几千年前一样，今天就做出了关键的决定，这是根据几个人的直觉猜测和偏好的角色……{}很有可能，整个社会的命运很可能被其领导人犯下的一系列可避免的错误所掩盖。
(Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...{it is} quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.)