"The third transformation, and in some ways the most disturbing, is the
disintegration of the old patterns of human social relationships, and with
it, incidentally, the snapping of the links between generations, that is to
say, between the past and the present". "This has been particularly evident
in the most developed countries of the western version of capitalism, in
which the values of an absolute a-social individualism have been dominant,
both in official and unofficial ideologies, though those who hold them
often deplore their social consequences". Pp15 Age Of Extremes by Eric
Hobsbawm
"The most effective way to build an industrial economy based on private
enterprise was to combine it with motivations which had nothing to do with
the logic of the free market - for instance with the Protestant ethic; with
the abstention from immediate gratification; with the ethic of hard work;
with family duty and trust; but certainly not with the antinomian rebellion
of individuals". Pp16 Age Of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm
Ed G
Ed Goertzen,
Oshawa
