Chúng tôi đang tạo ra một xã hội mới. Không phải là một xã hội thay đổi. Không phải là một phiên bản mở rộng lớn hơn cuộc sống của xã hội hiện tại của chúng ta. Tuy nhiên, một xã hội mới. Tiền đề đơn giản này vẫn chưa bắt đầu cồn ý thức của chúng tôi. | Chapter 9 THE SCIENTIFIC TRAJECTORY We are creating a new society. Not a changed society. Not an extended larger-than-life version of our present society. But a new society. This simple premise has not yet begun to tincture our consciousness. Yet unless we understand this we shall destroy ourselves in trying to cope with tomorrow. A revolution shatters institutions and power relationships. This is precisely what is happening today in all the high-technology nations. Students in Berlin and New York in Turin and Tokyo capture their deans and chancellors bring great clanking education factories to a grinding halt and even threaten to topple governments. Police stand aside in the ghettos of New York Washington and Chicago as ancient property laws are openly violated. Sexual standards are overthrown. Great cities are paralyzed by strikes power failures riots. International power alliances are shaken. Financial and political leaders secretly tremble not out of fear that communist or capitalist revolutionaries will oust them but that the entire system is somehow flying out of control. These are indisputable signs of a sick social structure a society that can no longer perform even its most basic functions in the accustomed ways. It is a society caught in the agony of revolutionary change. In the 1920 s and 1930 s communists used to speak of the general crisis of capitalism. It is now clear that they were thinking small. What is occurring now is not a crisis of capitalism but of industrial society itself regardless of its political form. We are simultaneously experiencing a youth revolution a sexual revolution a racial revolution a colonial revolution an economic revolution and the most rapid and deep-going technological revolution in history. We are living through the general crisis of industrialism. In a word we are in the midst of the super-industrial revolution. If failure to grasp this fact impairs one s ability to understand the present it also leads otherwise .
