AGE OF ANGER

Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, how ever, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization and urbanization visibly scar much of the world. As once happened in Europe, the wider embrace of revolutionary politics, mass movements, technology, the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast billions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity. It was from among the ranks ...[Llegir més]