The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, science and technology, and the acknowledgment of the individual’s rights vis-à-vis the state (Western values) has dominated the world for 500 years. Over the last 200 years it took form of an Anglo-American worldview introducing the age of economics: industrialization, liberal representative democracy, colonization, and economic growth sponsored by innovation. These elements coalesced into economic globalization. The seismograph now registers something more sinister than cracks; the needle indicates underlying challenges to virtually all fundamental elements.The alpha male of the world order, the US, is neither willing nor capable of defending the steering system. It has ceased …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
