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Breaking the Spell of the Postmodern World | Michael Young

Sovereign Nations

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Psychologically, You Need Affluence

A society preoccupied with introspection and self-fulfillment is easily caught off guard by an unanticipated shift in economic relationships. An era in which people are eager to enjoy the benefits of 30 years of unparalleled economic growth is a terrible time psychologically to face disagreeable economic truths. Will we achieve a synthesis between traditional commitments and new forms of fulfillment? Or will we indeed end up with the worst of two worlds? If so, we enter a period of bitter, polarizing social conflict that will tear us apart, wreck our society, and crush our spirits. Let's have a look back at the summer of 2020 and see how that turned out.

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