DOC Battle Honours Of The Second World War 1939 - 1945 And Korea 1950 - 1953 (British And Colonial Regiments): Battle Honours Of The Second World War 1939 ... 1950 - 1953 (British And Colonial Regiments) by From Naval and Military Press in History

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The Chrysalis Effect shows that the chaos and conflict experienced worldwide today are the result of a global cultural metamorphosis; one which has accelerated so rapidly in recent decades as to provoke fierce resistance. Many of the changes that have taken place in the last fifty years - the feminist movement; the rapid spread of democracy; the global economy; quantum physics; minority movements; the peace movement; the sexual revolution - are part of this cultural transformation. Contrary to accepted opinion; the conflict it engenders is not a struggle between Left and Right; nor between the West and Islam; but one taking place within the Left; within the Right; within the West; within Islam; within everyone and every institution. Currently; the world is in the middle of an adaptive process; moving toward a cultural ethos more appropriate to a species living in a shrinking world and in danger of destroying its habitat - a world that increasingly demands for its survival; integrative thinking; unlimited communication; and global cooperation. Philip Slater - author of the bestselling The Pursuit of Loneliness and nine other nonfiction books - explains the metamorphosis of global culture through the analogy of the transition from caterpillar to butterfly - the Chrysalis Effect - whereby old cultural assumptions are challenged while innovations are seen as a social ill; a critical moral infection; and attacked as such by the upholders of tradition. And when the budding culture replaces the previous one; it doesn't create a new way of being out of nothing; but merely rearranges old patterns to make the new ones. Today; our world is caught in the middle of this disturbing transformative process - a process that creates confusion over values; loss of ethical certainty; and a bewildering lack of consensus about almost everything. The Chrysalis Effect provides an answer to the question: Why is the world in such a mess?