Some cycles last for generations. Western civilization has been pursuing an increasingly one sided development of and dependence on a rational approach to problem solving for centuries. This has culminated in a century of the most remarkable scientific and technical progress and the opening of possibilities that were previously unimaginable. It has also lead to the greatest horrors humanity has known and to weapons that threaten the existence of humankind. In the United States our immense progress in creating material wealth has started to sour.
More wealth is concentrated in fewer hands.
People are working longer and harder for fewer rewards and with far more anxiety. We are failing to educate many of our children. Civilization is decaying in our inner cities. Something has gone terribly wrong. We have a myriad of remedies to prescribe.