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How the West Was Lost: Coping With Life in a Strange, New Civilization

How the West Was Lost: Coping With Life in a Strange, New Civilization

Murphy, Patrick Michael

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1420855301
ISBN13: 9781420855302
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: May 16 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
His premise is that civilizations have life spans, and the Western civilization that produced America and Europe has been replaced, in our lifetime, and before our very eyes. To people whose minds were made by the West, the civilization we now find ourselves in often feels wrong, evil even, but we also find ourselves feeling oddly affectionate toward this strange new world. And the more time that passes, the more normal the New Civ gets to feel. We sometimes have to pinch ourselves to remember that society once had roots in a universe that knew something of moral absolutes, where the horrible behaviors we now read about in every morning newspaper were so rare that one such event in a year would have felt like the world is just about to end. But these things are what passes for normalcy today. We are still able to be reminded of what we know in our bones, although it gets harder all the time: something has gone terribly wrong. That's what this book is about.

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