ABSTRACT
Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. We cross what in an earlier book (The New Realities, 1989) I called a ‘divide’. Within a few short decades, society rearranges itself – its world view; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later there is a new world. And the people born then cannot even imagine the world in which their grandparents lived and into which their own parents were born.
