Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first CenturyCollier Books, 1994 - 240 pagini As we rush toward the 21st century, former Director of the National Security Council Brzezinski takes time out to issue an "urgent warning" about the current state of global politics. He believes we are in peril of repeating the "megadeath" of this century--a century that has witnessed the slaughter of 187 million people in the name of politics. |
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... humanity's transcendental questions about the meaning of life were coincid- ing with humanity's more organized efforts to liberate itself from a passive subordination to the vicissitudes of nature . These ef- forts involved more complex ...
... humanity's transcendental questions about the meaning of life were coincid- ing with humanity's more organized efforts to liberate itself from a passive subordination to the vicissitudes of nature . These ef- forts involved more complex ...
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... humanity's knowl- edge and all of humanity's aspirations could be compressed into a unified doctrine , based on the revealed word of a deified leader . The implementation of the metamyth through the coercive cre- ation of a secular ...
... humanity's knowl- edge and all of humanity's aspirations could be compressed into a unified doctrine , based on the revealed word of a deified leader . The implementation of the metamyth through the coercive cre- ation of a secular ...
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... humanity's life and death , and even over the human being itself through the expanding capacity for scientific self - manipulation ; political activism - with humanity more politically con- scious , hence also more susceptible to mass ...
... humanity's life and death , and even over the human being itself through the expanding capacity for scientific self - manipulation ; political activism - with humanity more politically con- scious , hence also more susceptible to mass ...
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The Century of Megadeath | 7 |
The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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