Chapter 13 Introduction

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Chapter 13

A Win-win Strategy for Europe in The Knowledge Society

Marc Luyckx Ghisi

 

Introduction

 

"When vision vanishes, people perish"
Bible, Proverbs: 29:18

 

Almost all values of the modern rational capitalist system are in rapid transformation, but in silence. It is more usual in discussions to underline one or two aspect that are slowly being transformed, but this chapter highlights that all key values are disappearing or have already gone. All the foundations of industrial capitalism are rapidly disintegrating, but meanwhile business as usual prevails. Is this interpretation wrong? Have events been completely misunderstood? Is this exaggeration? Why such silence and such an absence of reflection and of action? Only time will reveal the full answers to these questions, but in the meantime presented here are some possible answers.