Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first centuryAs 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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Increasingly, it is defined by television — the prevailing purveyor of mass culture
— as the acquisition of goods and instant self-gratification more generally. The
utopian fanatic is in this fashion replaced by the insatiable consumer. In the age
of ...
Increasingly, it is defined by television — the prevailing purveyor of mass culture
— as the acquisition of goods and instant self-gratification more generally. The
utopian fanatic is in this fashion replaced by the insatiable consumer. In the age
of ...
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In fact, self-alteration is in part self-gratification. In the absence of any deliberately
defined criteria of choice, self-alteration may become as massive as the
technological and scientific onslaught on the natural environment that is already
...
In fact, self-alteration is in part self-gratification. In the absence of any deliberately
defined criteria of choice, self-alteration may become as massive as the
technological and scientific onslaught on the natural environment that is already
...
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... with the latter based on notions of self-restraint in social self-gratification. The
West's ecological movement — whatever may be said about some of its specific
advocacy — may be the first step toward such self-limitation. That may prove to
be ...
... with the latter based on notions of self-restraint in social self-gratification. The
West's ecological movement — whatever may be said about some of its specific
advocacy — may be the first step toward such self-limitation. That may prove to
be ...
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The Century of Megadeath | 7 |
The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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Informații bibliografice
| Titlu | Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first century |
| Autor | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Editor | Collier Books, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0020081154, 9780020081159 |
| Lungime | 240 pagini |
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