Fun-Seeking Americans Ignore Threats to Liberty
  by OffSite (9/17/09)

Pitirim Sorokin, the brilliant social thinker, argued that history is cyclical, going through periods that are ideational, ideological, and sensate. Affluent societies, which can afford to indulge themselves, revert to pleasures that appeal to the senses as their overarching concern. While sensate societies are dissolute, Sorokin contends that subordinate ideational ideas in sensate cultures will become superordinate thereby replacing the sensual in and inexorable cycle.

t what if the society amuses itself to extinction? What if complacency militates against arousal? Suppose the sensate condition is so dominant re-creation cannot take place?  Full Piece

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