“The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.” EndsSocialDemocracyStreetsExampleMovementWallFinancialIdeologyErasGood ExamplesFinancial MarketsOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era.” WorldIndividualSocialEmotionSeeingModernContemporaryErasPlanesPsychicsConditioningDullnessCloudedMalaiseModern Era Author:Frederick Lenz
“The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.” EndsBodyPoliticalSocialSoundStudentsDemandFlowUniversityEducationalErasConsiderationPrivilegedCriteriaStrategicCampusDissidentsAppeasement Book:The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.” WorldWarHumanitySocialEconomicColdCrisisPopulationScalesErasPostsCold WarRapidsUnprecedentedWorld Population Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.” KnowsWantMeanDoeWarWisdomLawFightingPoliticsNationsSocialJusticeEconomyDemocracyOughtPleaseInjusticeErasLiberalismTragicDivorcedAftermathFighting For FreedomSocial Injustice Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.” ThinkingMomentsOrderEnergySocialJusticeHistoryCreatingLettersSocial JusticeErasThoughtfulCustomsThinkerSheerVulgarVictorianSocial Order Author:Ellen Glasgow
“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.” WritingFirstsChildrenIdeasDifferentAgeSocialUnderstandingDifferencesStudyModernChildhoodStageDevelopmentAdultsInventionErasGreekLengthEducatorCredibleRetrospectModern TimesAge DifferenceModern EraStages Of DevelopmentLength Of Life Author:David Elkind
“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.” YearsChildrenStatesPastSocialGoalChangeChildhoodSpecialChangedPeriodsDemandAdultsImportanceIllErasLastingTemporaryConceptionProtectedAdulthoodOver The PastUnreasonable Author:Sandra Scarr