Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first CenturyScribner, 1993 - 240 pagini Rarely 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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... organic unity based on linguistic affinity was extant even earlier and by the seventeenth century had not only official standing but some degree of popular accep- tance . Already in 1694 , the Dictionnaire of l'Académie Française ...
... organic unity based on linguistic affinity was extant even earlier and by the seventeenth century had not only official standing but some degree of popular accep- tance . Already in 1694 , the Dictionnaire of l'Académie Française ...
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... organic balance between humanity and nature . In doing so , it has been attempting to gain control over a dynamic process in which human domination over nature created the illusion of control by the former over the latter while in ...
... organic balance between humanity and nature . In doing so , it has been attempting to gain control over a dynamic process in which human domination over nature created the illusion of control by the former over the latter while in ...
Pagina 82
... organic and more tightly binding beliefs such as ethnicity , xenophobia , or religion , per- haps fueled by disappointment with , and contempt for , the " cor- rupt and selfish West . " In the disunited but socially frustrated former ...
... organic and more tightly binding beliefs such as ethnicity , xenophobia , or religion , per- haps fueled by disappointment with , and contempt for , the " cor- rupt and selfish West . " In the disunited but socially frustrated former ...
Cuprins
The Century of Megadeath | 7 |
The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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