It would seem, therefore, that in a civilizational crisis man cannot save himself.

Within this context of spontaneous and unanalyzed responses to the experience of civilizational crisis, two basic organizations of response are observable: reaction and ideological progressivism.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

Since civilizational change is the most difficult to perceive and analyze, it seldom is given adequate attention.

Literature is thus, on the one hand, a sensorium for what goes wrong in a society, for the biophobic, life-paralyzing implications of one-sided forms of consciousness and civilizational uniformity, and it is, on the other hand, a medium of constant cultural self-renewal, in which the neglected biophilic energies can find a symbolic space of expression and of ( re -) integration into the larger ecology of cultural discourses.

In 2004 Weigel wrote an article in Commentary magazine, entitled " The Cathedral and the Cube ", in which he used the contrast between the modernist Grande Arche, and the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, both located in Paris, France, to illustrate what he called a loss of " civilizational morale " in Western Europe, which he tied to the secular tyrannies of the 20th century, along with, more recently, plummeting birthrates and Europe's refusal to recognize the Christian roots of its culture.

Huntington also argues that civilizational conflicts are " particularly prevalent between Muslims and non-Muslims ", identifying the " bloody borders " between Islamic and non-Islamic civilizations.

The possibility that such finds could verify theories of formative civilizational ties with contemporary civilizations in China and the Korean Peninsula, with commensurate influence on thought about the origins of the Imperial Household itself, is generally considered to be the greater part of the jealousy with which the agency guards its authority over this large number of tombs ( many of which are likely imperial only in name ), and prevents scientific inquiry into these sites.

Huntington presents a world divided at the highest level into eight civilizations, and includes a number of countries that are “ torn ” between two civilizations, arguing that these civilizational divides are far more fundamental than economic interests, ideology, and regimes, and that the world is becoming a smaller place with increasingly close interactions.

He also argues that civilizational ties are only utilized by states and groups when it is in their best interest to do so and that modernity and secularism are here to stay, especially in places with considerable struggles to obtain them, and he cites the example of the Indian Middle class.

For Zureiq, the human powers that make culture are the civilizational powers of human reason in its critical and creative functions.

“ The main factors in civilizational changes are in our view acquired volitional human factors … Natural or environmental factors, such as race and heredity, geographic situation, economic system, and social, intellectual, and moral conditions, are all possibilities or bonds.

He argues past or present is very similar: that we have participated with a tragic common civilizational process of environmental degradation, economic consolidation, and lack of political representation for many millennia which has predictable outcomes.

: Diamond ’ s distinction between social and biological survival is a critical one, because too often we blur the two, or assume that biological survival is contingent on the strength of our civilizational values ...

In the family's own words ( during the third of twelve visits ), they had `` reached the crisis peak -- either the situation will give or we will break ''!!

During the third century crisis ( 235 – 285 ), the government resorted to requisition rather than payment in debased coinage, since it could never be sure of the value of money.

Indeed, the use of derivatives to conceal credit risk from third parties while protecting derivative counterparties contributed to the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States.

An amphitheatre built in the third century AD is still visible, but the thermae were demolished during the crisis of the third century to build the city's walls, which remain some of the most complete circuit of Gallo-Roman city walling that survives.

Concomitant with the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, the third round of SDR allocations occurred in the years 2009 and 2011.

The economic developments in the latter third of the decade were dominated by a worldwide economic downturn, which started with the crisis in housing and credit in the United States in late 2007, and led to the bankruptcy of major banks and other financial institutions.

Copper disappears gradually, and by the middle of the third century, with Rome's economy in crisis, the Antonianus will be the only official currency.

The " Lennox crisis " refers to the political dilemma in England which arose from the dynastic ambition of the Lennoxes: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, was third in line to the Scottish throne, and his wife Margaret Douglas was niece to Henry VIII and granddaughter of Henry VII.

A third faction comprised those who simply denied there was any “ general crisis ,” such as the Dutch historian Ivo Schöffer, the Danish historian Niels Steengsgaard, and the Soviet historian A. D. Lublinskaya.

Beyond a mere symptom of chaos in the third century crisis, the Gallic Empire can be interpreted as a measure of provincial identification competing with the traditional sense of romanitas, of the cohesive loyalties of individual legions, and of the power accumulated by entrenched Romanized aristocratic kinship networks whose local power bases ranged from the Rhine to Baetica, although the extent of " Gaulish " self-identification that nationalist historians have inferred is probably inflated.

The third cycle is known as the Unraveling, when elements of individualism and fragmentation take over society, developing a troubled era which leads directly to the Fourth Turning, an era of crisis dominating society during which a redefinition of its very structure, goals, and purposes is established.

GDP ( long stuck at its 1973 level even with a growing population ) leapt by about a third from early 1991 to late 1994, and physical investment, depressed since the 1981-82 crisis, more than doubled in this period.

The invasions, military anarchy and disorders of the third century crisis, are seen not as causative, but providing a chaotic and ongoing degradation of the regional power structure within a declining Empire into which the bagaudae achieved some temporary and scattered successes, under the leadership of members of the underclass as well as former members of local ruling elites.

GDP growth had already slowed from a 6. 8 % rate in the fourth quarter of 1974 to 1. 4 % in the second quarter ; following the Rodrigazo crisis, the economy shrank 4. 4 % by the first quarter of 1976, with fixed investment falling by one sixth and auto production by a third.

He married young and has no regrets, although by the third series he is suffering from a mid-life crisis.

The empire began to decline in the crisis of the third century

That crisis prompted the third partial Air Guard mobilization since the end of World War II and eventually two ANG fighter squadrons were dispatched to South Korea.

The third crisis was a conflict with the Argentine Confederation over ascendancy in territories adjacent to the Río de la Plata and free navigation of that waterway.

Extremists connected to the Serbian government ignited the July crisis of 1914, and ( having issued two ultimatums to Serbia during the Balkan Wars, with reluctant Russian acquiescence ) hoped to repeat this successfully a third time.

The third in command, Solicitor General Robert Bork, also planned to resign, but Richardson persuaded him not to in order to ensure proper leadership at the Department of Justice during the crisis.

* Peninta-Peninta ( 50-50 ), comedy, ended-cancelled after third season due to financial crisis of the production and the channel.

It would be the third Home Rule Bill, introduced in 1912, which would lead to the crisis in Ireland between the majority Nationalist population and the Unionists in Ulster.

At the same time, the Non-Aligned states failed to form a third Bloc, especially after the split at the outcome of the 1973 oil crisis.

He wrote that " the historical trend of our age is the fatal crisis which capitalist production has undergone in the European and American countries where it has reached its highest peak, a crisis that will end in its destruction, in the return of modern society to a higher form of the most archaic type — collective production and appropriation ".

External Affairs minister Louis St. Laurent dealt decisively with this crisis, the first of its type in Canada's history.

* Complicated comorbidity: It is the result of the primary disease and often subsequent after sometime after its destabilization appears in the shape of target lesions ( for example chronic nephatony resulting from diabetic nephropathy ( Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease ) in patients with type 2 diabetes ; development of brain infarction resulting from complications due to hypertensive crisis in patients suffering from hypertension ).

Of the profounder significance of the French outbreak he seems to have had little idea, and thought the crisis would be met by a constitutional adjustment in accordance with the English type.

The housing crisis of the 1940s forced the urban poor to erect hundreds of shantytowns in the suburbs, when favelas replaced tenements as the main type of residence for destitute Cariocas ( residents of Rio ).

As part of his campaign to distance himself from the energy crisis, he posted a short video on his state website which included several clips of him opposing the type of deregulation which was eventually included in the energy bill.

The Marques of Puységur ’ s miraculous healing of a young man named Victor in 1784 was the first case of this new revolutionary type of " crisis ".

Milder forms resulting from incomplete loss of 3β-HSD type II function do not present with adrenal crisis, but can still produce virilization of genetically female infants and undervirilization of genetically male infants.

This is the same type of deceit that has plunged our city into a deep crisis.

By the beginning of the final decade of the nineteenth century type founding was in a state of crisis.

Personality type and a history of psychological crisis are believed to predispose some people to this " traditional " midlife crisis.

Due to the global economic crisis which also affected Croatia, the decision on which fighter type should eventually enter service has been deferred until 2011, rather than by 2009 as was initially planned.

* A new type of perception involves " multilevelness ," a vertical view of life that compares lower versus higher alternatives and now allows the individual to choose a higher resolution to a crisis over other available, but lower, alternatives — the developmental solution.

However, the Soviet records revealed that these individuals were not present, and Khrushchev was effectively stuck alone in his office during the crisis without the type of support Kennedy had.

A currency crisis is a type of financial crisis, and is often associated with a real economic crisis.

Historically, this type of pain has been described as " Dietl's crisis.

Support was provided to some degree by fast river boats, the navis lusoria being the standard type, that could reach outposts or points of crisis quickly.

In 1959 a crisis led to the companies purchase by Bremer Atlas GmbH and its conversion into a GmbH ( a type of limited liability company ).

This Jack may have been some type of " apparition " created by an insane Scarlet Witch rather than the actual Jack of Hearts, starting the crisis known as Avengers Disassembled.

Emergency power systems are a type of system, which may include lighting, generators, fuel cells and other apparatus, to provide backup power resources in a crisis or when regular systems fail.