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Is Homo sapiens capable of making sense of the world it has created? Is there still a clear border separating reality from fiction?

While the Ocean Age gave rise to transoceanic empires, the Industrial Age gave rise to the first global hegemon, Great Britain, and later, the United States. These two powers bestrode the entire globe with unprecedented military, technological, and financial power. But, as the end of the British Empire demonstrated, even hegemons can quickly lose

As long ago as 1936, the prehistorian V. Gordon Childe wrote a book called Man Makes Himself.

Habermas also adopts the Frankfurt School’s rather pessimistic analysis that monopoly capitalism and welfare-state liberalism in the United States led ultimately to a diminution of human freedom, and to the hollowing out of democratic politics, and did not provide a fruitful alternative to the fragile social order of Weimar Germany that capitulated

A good reminder that from here on out, the rough draft of history would be written on social media.

This new age of globalization, like the past ages, will create new patterns of global economic activity, jobs, lifestyles, and geopolitics. This new age arrives together with another fundamental development: a human-caused ecological crisis hitting the planet. The dramatic successes of globalization during the past two centuries have sown the seeds

Hence as knowledge became the most important economic resource, the profitability of war declined and wars became increasingly restricted to those parts of the world – such as the Middle East and Central Africa – where the economies are still old-fashioned material-based economies.

In the new millennium, economic and political life will no longer be organized on a gigantic scale under the domination of the nation-state as it was during the modern centuries. The civilization that brought you world war, the assembly line, social security, income tax, deodorant, and the toaster oven is dying. Deodorant and the toaster oven may

L'âge où nous entrons sera véritablement l'ÈRE DES FOULES. Il y a un siècle à peine, la politique traditionnelle des États et les rivalités des princes étaient les principaux facteurs des événements. L'opinion des foules ne comptait guère, et même, le plus souvent, ne comptait pas. Aujourd'hui ce sont les traditions politiques, les tendances