ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the studies of the civilization-destroying consequences of totalitarianism, colonialism, and globalization in the Old World, New World, and Third World. All three of these destructive agents derived from the West: colonialism, totalitarianism, and globalization in its earlier phase came from Europe, whereas the latest phase of globalization emerged from America. Civilization, as it is have demonstrated, is largely a matter of culture, of ethics, rationality, and high literacy. The fate of mankind will be determined by the interplay between globalization and civilization. This is the titanic struggle between the universalizing tendencies of the Forces of Modernity and the particularizing ones of local culture that reach back into the past. It is in deciding what is universal and what is particular that most of these disputes turn. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book.