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PendulumRoy H. Williams

Pendulum

2012253 pages
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Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of Western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind. There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite. Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we are…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2012
    Vanguard Press · 9781593157159
  • Other · English · 2012
    Vanguard Press · 253 pages · 9781593157067
ForecastingPhilosophySocial changeRegression (Civilization)Modern CivilizationSocial historyHistorySocial sciences