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..
- Author
- Ross Douthat
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781476785240
- Genres
- politics, history, sociology, philosophy, cultural, economics, society, audiobook
- Release date
- 2020
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