This is an analysis of the nature, causes and consequences of the crisis of modern society. Professor Sorokin asserts that the whole of modern culture is undergoing a period of transition brought on by the struggle between the forces of the largely outworn materialistic order and the emerging, creative forces of a new idealistic order. On the outcome of this struggle, the author contends, rests the progress and survival of mankind.
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The Fall of Babylon,
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Maybe you noticed it too: Why is "civilization" so screwed up, decadent, spiritually vapid?When I was 17 years old, I was questioning whether it was me or the environment I was living in that caused me to feel so unconnected. I was "praying" to God for answers (god knows our needs so preying is superfluous -- god knows our prayers before we ask), when I miraculously found "The Crisis of Our Age" in a pile of books by a garbage can. This book became my bible for explaining why things were the way they are and where we as a people could go -- how civilization could evolve, mature. We need a new, fresh, rational ideology that will inspire people to their fullest potential. To create an environment that nutures Peace & Love. This got me to thinking: We Must Abolish Money, Law & the $tate (international boundaries) if we are to evolve. (...)You can read quotations from this book here: And visit my website for more info on The Way:
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- Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy: The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century by Donald N. Wood on page 1, page 9, and Back Matter
- Christendom And European Identity: The Legacy Of A Grand Narrative Since 1789 (Religion and Society) by Mary Anne Perkins on page 175, and Back Matter
- European Philosophy and the American Academy (Monist Library of Philosophy) by Barry Smith on page 11, and page 20
- The Spiritual Society: What Lurks Beyond Postmodernism? by Frederic W. Baue on page 44, and Back Matter
- The Capitalist World-Economy (Studies in Modern Capitalism) by Immanuel Wallerstein on page 231, and page 232
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