“A politically awakening world is less and less likely to tolerate massive disproportions in the conditions of life,” remarks Brzezinski.

Moreover, thanks to the wonders of modern communication, they are more aware of the rich, and of their own comparative disadvantage, than ever before. On the other side, the poor are numerous and growing more so. They live in a “permissive cornucopia,” defined here as “a society in which everything is permitted and everything can be had.” It is a society in which God is dead and in which television “is rapidly replacing the roles traditionally played by the family, by the church, by the school.” Above all, it is a society characterized by the absence of self-control and the breakdown of “social criteria of moral discernment.” The rich-meaning citizens of the West and especially the United States-are decadent. What Brzezinski sees is a world divided between rich and poor. In 1988, he broke with the Democratic party to endorse George Bush for President over Michael Dukakis. The various memoirs of the Carter administration, not least Brzezinski’s own, Power and Principle, make it clear that he took a conservative or hard-line position in a long series of internecine battles over policy. Out of Control aims to describe the political dynamics of the post-cold-war world it is also interesting for what it reveals about Brzezinski’s own political evolution.Īlthough he served a liberal President, Brzezinski has been regarded as leaning more to the conservative side.

A recent instance is the new book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter and a leading light of U.S. Not only is the Soviet region itself still in turmoil, but even here, far from the epicenter, the political ground continues to rumble beneath our feet, pushing up new formations.

The tremors and aftershocks from the earthquake that swallowed up the Soviet empire have not yet ceased. Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century.

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