Is Donald Trump a throwback to a
time when leaders were dictators, war was noble and women were property? I think that is the wrong question.
What is happening in our country
is not limited to Trump's candidacy. It is bigger. Think global. "The
Chrysalis Effect: The Metamorphosis of Global Culture" — the last book by
the sociologist Philip Slater — gave me the means to analyze and to realize what is at stake.
High praise? Try this…
“The Chrysalis Effect' is the most brilliant tour de force of this
decade. It is, and will continue to be, the most powerful and original analysis
of this century's planetary vertigo. Without exaggeration, Slater's
path-breaking illumination of our global 'state of mind' can be compared only
with the work of a Gibbon, or Toynbee or Plutarch. It's that profound and
should be the most widely read book for years to come.” ~Warren Bennis
2 comments:
In the absence of any intelligent discourse- either in the media, by elected “representatives” or indeed in our presidential election campaign- reading this book is not a waste of time. Today our world is caught in the middle of a disturbing trans-formative process–a process that creates confusion over values, loss of ethical certainty, and a bewildering lack of consensus about almost everything.
Invest in yourself – read this book – and bust through some artificial barriers in the process. This book is a diamond in the rough, a tumble of perspectives on the evolution of cultural change – a perspective distinctly worthy of digestion.
Whatever comes our way, whatever battle is raging, we always have a choice.
It's the choices that makes us what we are.
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