Sublime

interactive “exhibits” were sorted by discipline (anthropology, psychology, history, and others), concept (change, logistics, productivity, and so on), and strategic theme (competition, cooperation, unions and alliances, and more).

interest to the

objectivity

With the dawn of the new century, however, came a wave of “progressive” sentiment that called for a far tougher regulation of railroads, in the public interest.

the study of megapolitics. In two previous volumes, Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning, we argued that the most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate,

Technological breakthroughs and modernity go together. If modernity is speed, then technology is one of the dimensions that produces that speed. Our direct experience with technology—through communication, transportation, and production—speeds up our lives. The art professor sensed that something had changed and he was going faster. He was, and it

newspaper, suddenly

reports lasting a total of less than

This reaction is understandable, as it based on two defining characteristics of today’s social decay that the peace researcher Johan Galtung calls anomie, the loss of norms and values, and atomie, the breakdown of social structures.