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| newworldaquarium - tresspassers 13dsr/nwa2, delsin records - available now | To tomorrow.. The transition from First Wave to Second Wave civilization was one long blood-drenched drama of wars, revolts, famines, forced migrations, coups detat, and calamities. Today the stakes are much higher, the time shorter, the acceleration faster, the dangers even greater. Much depends on the flexibility and intelligence of todays elites, sub-elites and super-elites. If these groups prove to be as short-sighted, unimaginative, and frightened as most ruling groups in the past, they will rigidly resist the Third Wave and thereby escalate the risks of violence and their own destruction. If, by contrast, they flow with the Third wave, if they recog- nize the need for a broadened democracy, they In fact can join in the process of creating a Third Wave civilization, just as the most intelligent First Wave elites anticipated the coming of a technologically based industrial society and joined in its creation. Most of us know, or sense, how dangerous a world we live in. We know that social instability and political uncertainties can unleash savage energies. We know what war and economic cata- clysm mean, and we remember how often totalitarianism has sprung from noble intentions and social breakdown. What most people seem to ignore, however, are the positive differences be- tween present and past. Circumstances differ from country to country, but never in history have there been so many reasonably educated people, col- lectively armed with so incredible a range of knowledge. Never have so many enjoyed so high a level affluence, precarious perhaps, yet ample enough to allow them time and energy for civic concern and action. Never have so many been able to travel, to communicate, and to learn so much from other cultures. Above all, never have so many had so much to gain by guaranteeing that the necessary changes, though profound, be made peacefully. Elites, no matter how enlightened, cannot by themselves make a new civilization. The energies of whole peoples will be required. But those energies are available, waiting to be tapped. Indeed if we, particularly in the high-technology countries, took as our explicit goal for the next generation the creation of wholly new institutions and constitutions, we could release something far more powerful than energy: the collective imagination. The sooner we begin to design alternative political institutions based on the three principles described above minority power, 451 Alvin Toffler.The Third Wave.1980*trespassers.justkoko.koko and lee who?.nwaq.2/delsin013 | out:: 11dsr/psm4 peel seamus - shifting gears 12dsr/fba1 future beat alliance - audio photos soon:: 14dsr/aar2 aardvarck - ludiek 15dsr/var1 various - ..going thru life, delsin compliation 16dsr/otn1 optic nerve - pharaoh's doorway ep | label contact delsin records, amsterdam fon 20-494-5535 fax 20-773-8483 e. xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx url. http://www.delsin.org | distribution contact rushhour, amsterdam fon/fax 20-427-4505 e. xxxx@xxxxxxxx.xx url. http://www.rushhour.nl |