Traditional societies everywhere are in flux. Take any one of them, put it through a blender of urbanization, mass education, and industrialization. It will come out, more or less, like all the others. The other half, the West itself, has already lost them. Gwynne Dyer argues that the new emerging values are not all that bad.
History says no, but pre-history says yes.
Gwynne Dyer bridges the gulf. But for a million years before that, our ancestors lived in little bands of hunter-gatherers run by consensus. The tyrannies of mass civilization may have been necessary because huge numbers of people could not communicate, let alone cooperate. This program examines the political surprises of the last decade in terms of the impact of mass communications on politics. We focus on Russia and China.