
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
272 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2020
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ISBN: 9781476785240
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster
Publication date: 25 February 2020
Description
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. .