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

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..

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781476785240
  • Genres
  • politics, history, sociology, philosophy, cultural, economics, society, audiobook
  • Release date
  • 2020