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It menaces deeply conservative societies.
For Western societies – weighed down by credits, contracts, and other obligations – conflict is extremely costly, so they tend to resist it, and even turn on leaders who suggest it.
Keeping corruption at the top of political and business leaders’ agenda and ensuring that societies remain vigilant will require strong and sustained effort from actors at all levels – from international institutions to governments, businesses, and ordinary citizens.
A look at the historical experience of the Jews shows that while most Jews were mired in poverty at the beginning of the twentieth century, over time they tended to do disproportionately well in societies that allowed them to compete on an equal basis.
Societies long oriented to economic dynamism tend to welcome the economically successful, viewing them as a source of mutual gains.
Most societies lie somewhere along a spectrum between these two poles.
But such a narrow, economics-based view fails to account for the larger questions of value that societies worldwide are facing.
Human beings are also changing the environment everywhere, often in ways that make societies more vulnerable.
In the contest between open and closed societies, the latter are clearly winning, and liberal democracy is quickly becoming a resistance movement.
Ongoing conflicts, such as Syria’s bloody civil war and Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in Eastern Ukraine, directly affect EU member states’ security, economies, and societies.
For example, in aging societies, loneliness and long-term health become particularly important.
Nearly 50,000 Twitter accounts are propagating these vehicles of hatred, seeking to exploit ignorance, intolerance, and divisions within societies.
For Kant, who struggled to re-define ethics in a new era of market societies, our duty can and must be deduced from our capacity for rationality.
Applied to market societies, Kant’s idea yields fascinating conclusions.
Personally, I think the greater risk is that the pace of technological progress will accelerate too much for societies to adapt, though the experience so far has basically been positive.
Francis still faces widespread apathy among believers, especially in the advanced industrial societies, where disaffected Catholics are increasingly questioning their commitment or simply opting out.
Because our societies have no sense of limits, they strive to eliminate death from our consciousness.
The success of women in e-commerce attests to the power of digital technologies to level the economic playing field, to the benefit of individual women, their communities and societies, and the world economy.
The debate about Europe is not simply a discussion of the merits of this or that institutional or technical solution to a problem of political coordination; it is about how societies can organize themselves successfully in a globalized world.
We emphasize that societies are divided by two potential cleavages: an identity split that separates a minority from the ethnic, religious, or ideological majority, and a wealth gap that pits the rich against the rest of society.
If these skills also render them perceptive observers of real societies and provide them with sound judgment, it is hardly by design.
After all, it is the rule of law--and only the rule of law--that distinguishes free societies from dictatorships.
One reason is that pornography in orthodox societies is illicit, so the distribution channels opened by sexual materials are usually used for other goods as well.
The many brave and progressive thinkers in the Islamic world should help to awaken their societies to this reality, and people of goodwill around the world should help them to do it through peaceful cooperation and the end of imperial-style wars and manipulation.
Such a hybrid, tradition-bound system may function well enough in Asian societies like Japan or South Korea, but not in countries like Poland, which must modernize and demystify their state in order to throw off the inherited inertia of the socialist era.
Societies that fail to attract foreign brains stagnate.
It is also why governments give the impression that they don’t know how to steer their societies through these troubled waters.
The reality of the atomic bomb precludes large-scale war between world powers; governments intervene, upon global agreement, with large-scale bailouts; and today’s Western societies and emerging powers are much richer than those still devastated by World War I.
Governments that fail to equip new generations with the skills needed to become leaders for their time are condemning them to be led by other, more innovative societies.
As a result, there is very little in the way of income gains to distribute – and even less in aging societies where fewer people are at work and those out of work live longer.
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