/lit/ - Literature

>>22369130
has a better description about how and why of contemporary society (he called it Mass Democracy and it isn't just exclusive to Western Political Systems)

start with Planetary Politics after the Cold War

>>22165650
lol, look at this idiot! he thinks hitchens was right

>>22058483
>Yeah this basically it. If we ever want to live in a system that is not industrial capitalism we need to invent something that out-competes it, culturally, economically, and militarily. Which is a tall fucking order, because the current system allows powerful agents to build and acquire and hire all sorts of means to have the monopoly on violence, which is a massive factor in the self perpetuation of the system. People get arrested for feeding the homeless

>>21705815
>Finally, there’s just the overall vibe that the decadence, security, comfort and safety at the peak of Western civilization, of the modern first-world nations, can’t last forever — like the legend of Atlantis, sunk and destroyed at its heigh of technological prosperity, its peak, or the decadence of Rome, one of the most powerful and flourishing civilizations of the world, falling into decay at the end of its lifespan.

this

>>21642846
>Society is fragmented, social groupss are quarelling over identity politics and other petty issues as Fukuyama's predictions of a world united under the banner of neoliberalism is collapsing, nations are disputing their local hegemonies again and the world is beginning to separate as it was during the cold war era.

predicted by Kondylis (pbuh)