From the Amazon Review----
Fukuyama argues that civilization is in the midst of a revolution on a par with hunter-gatherers learning how to farm or agricultural societies turning industrial. He finds much to celebrate in this cultural, economic, and technological transformation, but "with all the blessings that flow from a more complex, information-based economy, certain bad things also happened to our social and moral life." Individualism, for example, fuels innovation and prosperity, but has also "corroded virtually all forms of authority and weakened the bonds holding families, neighborhoods, and nations together." Yet this is not a pessimistic book: "Social order, once disrupted, tends to get remade again" because humans are built for life in a civil society governed by moral rules.
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It sounds as an interesting book...
Individualism, I think, has been misunderstood perhaps.
I think Individualism gives greater freedom in general, but it also carries more responsibility.... which many are not willing to take.
The old case of:
"nitto o oumono wa itto omoezu." <g> |
