Hyperculture the Human Cost of Speed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
- Publish date: 06/01/1998
Paul Pearsall
Author, The Heart's Code
The rampant illnesses of our society -- including the disintegration of family values, destruction of the environment, soulless consumerism, and bodies ravaged by stress -- are familiar to us all. Stephen Bertman attempts to explain these disparate, overwhelmingly negative phenomena with a single unifying principle: that the accelerated pace of technological and social change has polluted American society and eroded the essence of our most fundamental values. In 1970 Alvin Toffler identified the psycho-biological disease of "too much in too short a time" and called it "future shock". Now Bertman daringly diagnoses an even more serious condition, "hyperculture", a pervasive and chronic warping of ethics and morals. The treatment for hyperculture, he argues in this book, will require nothing less than reasserting control over the technologies that now dominate us and taking bold steps to preserve the rapidly depleting bounty of nature.
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