Seven Signs of the West's Transformation: Anatomy of a Post-Liberal Transition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798180950963)

Seven Signs of the West's Transformation: Anatomy of a Post-Liberal Transition

Why do Western societies feel stuck? Growth is slowing, wealth is concentrating, institutions are drifting toward soft control, and culture is being reshaped by algorithms that reward simplicity over depth. These are not separate problems. They are symptoms of a single transformation.

In this book, an engineer, lawyer, immigrant, and Australian researcher identifies seven interconnected signs of that transformation:

• The Demographic Inversion

• Neocapitalism: the state-corporate symbiosis

• The Matthew Effect: the concentration of capital

• The Great Stagnation

• Inverted Totalitarianism

• The Panopticon Archipelago

• The Great Fragmentation and Simplification of culture

Drawing on data, case studies from Australia and the West, and a wide range of sources: from Piketty and Zuboff to Foucault and Arendt, Seven Signs is both a diagnosis and a guide. It does not offer simple answers, but it offers a framework for understanding. And understanding, the author argues, is the first step toward adaptation.

For readers of Fukuyama, Mounk, and Cowen, this is a book that challenges both left and right, and that speaks to anyone who senses that something fundamental is shifting beneath the surface of Western life.