Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first CenturyRarely has there been a book as explosive and challenging as this brilliant analysis of today's massive geopolitical disorder. The triumphant collapse of communism has brought neither economic stability nor social democracy to the former Soviet Union. Nor, for that matter, to the rest of the world. We are living in a time of fragmentation: increasing disunity in Europe, dangerous eruptions in the Islamic republics, growing disparity between the world's rich and poor, and the evils of the "permissive cornucopia" in America which, through overstimulation of material desires and sensual self-gratification, is leading to the collapse of Western moral and spiritual values. In short, we are living in a philosophical climate that is "out of control". It is Zbigniew Brzezinski's firm belief that we must draw both moral and political lessons from the "megadeaths" of the twentieth century, a century in which at least 167 million people were slaughtered in the name of the "politics of organized insanity", or the "metamyths" of such dictators as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, among others. Unless we can practice selfrestraint derived from a moral commitment in the quest for global democratic "interdependence", we stand destined to risk again our very own survival. |
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Four individuals — each epitomizing a doctrine in which the physical elimination
not just of individual opponents but of entire categories of human beings , defined
either through race or class , was held to be socially beneficial - caused most of ...
Four individuals — each epitomizing a doctrine in which the physical elimination
not just of individual opponents but of entire categories of human beings , defined
either through race or class , was held to be socially beneficial - caused most of ...
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tute for internalizing entrepreneurial behavior , for grasping the financial
complexities of the banking system , and for recognizing the extremely subtle
difference between private initiative and individual greed . One can go on and
speak also of ...
tute for internalizing entrepreneurial behavior , for grasping the financial
complexities of the banking system , and for recognizing the extremely subtle
difference between private initiative and individual greed . One can go on and
speak also of ...
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... some grounds for serious and legitimate concern that in the advanced , rich ,
and politically democratic societies cornucopian permissiveness is increasingly
dominating and defining both the content and the goals of individual existence .
... some grounds for serious and legitimate concern that in the advanced , rich ,
and politically democratic societies cornucopian permissiveness is increasingly
dominating and defining both the content and the goals of individual existence .
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OUT OF CONTROL: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
Comentariu Utilizator - KirkusA brilliant and principled analysis of the perilous state of a fractious world as it approaches another millennium. Brzezinski (The Grand Failure, 1989, etc.), director of the National Security ... Citiți recenzia completă
Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first century
Comentariu Utilizator - Not Available - Book VerdictPresident Carter's former national security adviser has produced his fourth book in ten years. The last one, The Grand Failure ( LJ 4/15/89), chronicled the decline of communism. This time, Brzezinski ... Citiți recenzia completă
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The Century of Megadeath | 7 |
The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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