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As our societies have become richer, we have come to believe that everyone is entitled to a minimum standard, whether in work or sickness or unemployment, which allows for a continuing level of comfort and flourishing.
In largely agricultural societies, farm productivity affects the entire economy.
Not only did she espouse the cause of freedom – particularly economic freedom – in Britain and the West; by proclaiming Mikhail Gorbachev a man “we can do business with” (at a time when almost every democratic leader was deeply suspicious of his policies of perestroika and glasnost), she became a vital catalyst in unlocking our gulag societies.
Once one has thought through the degree of interdependence, not only of the world’s economies, but of the world’s societies, it becomes clear that a strongly fragmented system would be unable to deliver the sought-after global public goods and benefits.
Though the need to confront evil remains as pressing as ever, Western societies’ motivation for doing so may lose clarity.
The Bush administration seems to have assumed in its approach to post-Saddam Iraq that both democracy and a market economy were default conditions to which societies would revert once oppressive tyranny was removed, rather than a series of complex, interdependent institutions that had to be painstakingly built over time.
Democratic transitions need to be driven by societies that want democracy, and since the latter requires institutions, it is usually a fairly long and drawn out process.
Outside powers like the US can often help in this process by the example they set as politically and economically successful societies.
Successive governments staffed with unqualified politicians have failed dismally to carry out the core governmental functions of maintaining law and order, providing the basic services expected of modern societies, and promoting economic growth.
It must be hard and require enormous effort to acquire the unique skills that mark the superstar and earn societies’ respect and admiration.
Because workplace safety and industrial accident compensation turned out to be critical early tests of western legal systems' administrative capacity to deal with the systemic problems of industrial free-market societies.
It is a fear based on the instinctive realization that the “White Man’s World” – a lived reality assumed by its beneficiaries as a matter of course – is in terminal decline, both globally and in the societies of the West.
In short, these societies are undergoing a fundamental shock to traditional roles and patterns of behavior.
In many ways, the foundations for building more inclusive societies – societies that are ultimately richer and politically stable – must be laid in the countryside.
The system is not delivering benefits for large segments of our societies.
The problem starts at the top of Muslim societies, not with the disaffected at the bottom.
In a careful study of rising support for populist parties in Europe, the political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Pippa Norris of Harvard found that economic insecurity in the face of workforce changes in post-industrial societies explained less than cultural backlash.
The New Old Generation GapROME – A willingness to embrace change represents one of the main differences between affluent but aging societies and poor, younger ones.
In the Middle East, a generation of near-hopeless youth took to the streets in order to transform their societies.
The paradox here is that their actions actually ran counter to their own interests, for, in aging societies, high pension benefits today will invariably mean lower benefits tomorrow.
This intergenerational altruism is an essential pillar of modern societies.
But are societies made up of such “altruistic” old people actually altruistic?
The West must realize that its consumption-led economic system has exhausted the world’s resources, and that it is not a viable option for most Asian countries, whose governments must employ different political methods to create more equitable societies.
In societies lacking civic self-awareness, political calamities and economic catastrophes take place and yet fail to inspire a comprehensive purposeful reaction.
The case for openness, inclusion, and diversity in European societies has become much harder to make.
Policies to enable voluntary fertility decline, through female education and easy access to contraception should be high priorities;Iran, where the fertility rate fell from 6.5 in the 1980s to below two by 2005, shows what is possible even in supposedly traditional religious societies.
Greater stability in the Middle East, which implies a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, together with more effective integration of Muslims in our societies based on social justice and a stronger humanistic message, are the key elements of a cohesive Western strategy.
Western societies, for all their flaws, provide unrivaled prosperity, security, and freedom.
But a matching omission is that prompted by our societies’ increasing political unsustainability, not because of the immediate financial problems like those afflicting Europe and threatening the world, but because the modern media have made visible to all the disparities in the fortunes of the rich and the poor.
“Less Excess and More Access”: only a policy mix based on this credo will guarantee that our societies remain viable and achieve genuine “sustainability.”
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