Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
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It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.
Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.
People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.
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