“Given that policy choices would be undoubtedly hotly contested with decisions lagging the intensifying pace of change, we might not be able to avoid the 1940s ‘world on fire.’ The best can be argued is that we have options, and one hopes that we will not wait too long to exercise them and that the verdict about us by the future generations will be kinder than our verdict of the disastrous choices made by those who lived in the 1930s.” The book outlines policies that can lower tensions while defanging extremes, replicating the miracle of FDR’s New Deal, as the middle ground, in a world of violence and extremes The good news is that the younger cohorts (those born after the early 1980s) already recognize a need for change, and view the world in a very different light to their parents and grandparents, and the book examines what these younger generations want and what type of world they likely to create.
