“Cyber fundamentalism is where you’re all just together- but this time there’s no boss, no rules, you’re just all there, randomly behaving together. So I find that quite scary in a way, because it does challenge, for me, the salvation of human beings- which is to be individual.”
Susan Greenfield, scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage)
by Walter Russell Mead
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Isbn-13: 9780375713736
A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed....
