num_pages: 272
description: Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics the deeper reality is one of drift repetition and dead ends. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancinghow the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation political stalemates cultural exhaustion and demographic decline creates a strange kind of sustainable decadence a civilizational malaise that could endure for longer than we think..
language: English
title: The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon  Schuster