This is an introduction to a series of 10 articles in which I describe the contemporary moment through the lens of my just published book “Modernity”. Starting today I’ll publish a new article every Friday until attaining the end of the series.

Everyone somehow feels that humanity has entered a historical transition and that the relations between nations, and the lives of their citizens, are going to change drastically. But no one knows with any degree of certainty what this entails for peoples’ daily lives along the transition nor after its completion. And the media are not helping as they are stuck in one or another echo chamber. To keep one’s sanity we have certainly to stay informed but the wisest keep their distance from the daily news for a good reason. 

Constant immersion in propaganda weakens the synaptic processing of neuronal data which turns thinking idiotic !

In our present times of propaganda war, and mass cancellations of independent voices by the powers that be, only the study of what is called ‘long haul history’ can unveil what kind of background processes are at work in the societal cultural field that synchronize the perception of the citizens, about their contextual settings, and so kickoff their daily societal culture, taken in the largest sense of the word, which means all the individuals’ shared perceptions, beliefs, behaviors and actions.

The comprehension of the formation of our societal daily culture immunizes us from the ignorance, in which the powers that be want us to stay, and from their manipulation through propaganda that intents to mislead those very rare souls among us who earnestly search to understand the world we live in.

What is for sure is that we are all witnessing a rare historical moment of Western societal madness. And anyone who kept a sane mind will tell you that what we are witnessing more precisely is the sudden panic of Western elites at the sight of 85% of the world population that is starting to jump from the ship of Western Modernity which is signaling that we approach the end of a historical era.

Western elites are panicking at the sight of their loss of control, over the economy-world and the governance-world, in this Late-Modernity. This loss implies indeed a world-changing process that would free all societies on earth from centuries of Western hegemony. 

Lets never forget that Western countries, have been overturning non-Western peoples’ daily lives, for some 500 years already !  They first committed a worldwide genocide and then they relentlessly destroyed their traditions, their daily culture, and mercilessly looted their resources.

And while non-Western people were suffering their Western counterparts were supplied a constant flow of cheap goods that exploded the returns on investments of Western big capital holders while Western public institutions, and the International Institutions set up by them, were keeping non-Western countries in a state of constant subjugation !

What is at stake, for the West during this transition, is the ending of its 500 years of privileges and for non-Western countries it is the prospect of discovering their true potential in a multilateral context of partnership between sovereign nations sharing equal rights.