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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

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Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing—how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of “sustainable decadence,” a civilizational malaise that could endure for longer than we think..

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster

Release: February 25, 2020

ISBN: 1476785244

ISBN 13: 9781476785240

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing—how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of “sustainable decadence,” a civilizational malaise that could endure for longer than we think..

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster

Release: February 25, 2020

ISBN: 1476785244

ISBN 13: 9781476785240

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