Foreword
Introduction
Big Pictures, Deep Structures
Human Coordinates
Androgyny
Adult Countries
Linear, Cyclical, and the Spiritual Imperative
Chapter One – The Caste Model
Seekers, Warriors, Merchants, and Workers
Cyclical and Linear
Dynamics of Caste Struggle – Shorter and Shorter
The Pioneers, the Revolutionaries, and the Establishment
The Peak, the Descent, and the Third World
The Overlapping of Caste Ages
Two Economic Systems
Age-Skipping
For Better or For Worse?
Chapter Two – The Sex Model
Yin, Yang, and the Androgynous Future
Attached and Detached
When Men Were Female
When Women Were Kings
East-West Divide
The Androgynous Future
Animal Rights: The Spiritual Imperative
Synthetic History
Gays, Gods, and Total Time
Women on Stage and in the Wings
Sex and Love: Too Yang To Really Be In Love
From Sex, Lies, and Videotape to Sex, Love, and Intimacy
The Androgynous Adult
Chapter Three – The Age Model
History as Infant, Child, and Teenager
Mother
Rebel Without a Cause
The Adult Future – Androgynous Adult Religion and Human Survival
Chapter Four – Feminist Revolution and the Spiritual Age
Tying It All Together
From Random to Tandem
We’re Still Too Yang To Really Be In Love
Form, Content, and Feminist Revolution
Few Ms.es and Misters Miss Miss and Mrs.
Patriarchettes
Chapter Five – The Spiritual-Religious Age No. 1
Humanity Begins With the Religious Caste
Castes in Embryo and the Ruling Elite
Lithic Economies
Earth Mum and Heavenly Dad
The World Religions
Chapter Six – The Warrior Age
Heroes
Kings, Businessmen, and the Third World
Spain and Portugal
Chapter Seven – The Merchant Age
Money Made the World Go Round
Wider and Faster
Petty and Grand Imperialism
Merchants and Industrialists
The Pioneering Merchants
The Merchant Revolution
The Crown Reigns, Not Rules
The Evolutionary Side of the Revolutionary Stage of the Merchant Age
The Great Warrior-Merchant Merger
The Peak Stage – The United States Leads the World
Chapter Eight – The Worker Age
Workaholics Anonymous
The Worker Caste Elite
The Machine
Pioneering Stage of the Worker Caste’s Rise to World Power
Socialist Revolution
The Apparatchiks
Meanwhile, Back at the Old Caste’s Ranch – Worker Evolution
The Public Sector
The Private Sector
Old Merchants Never Die
Worker Caste Class Pyramid
A Hell of an Engineer
Chapter Nine – Tomorrow’s Great Powers
Predicting Away
Bloc Formation
Workers and the Enlightenment Triangle
The Halfway House: Economic-Political Union
From the Union to the Bloc
What Makes a Solid Bloc?
The Birth of Confucio
The Ronin Reaction
The Demodori Trend: Japan Returns to Asia
Europa as No. 2
Polario – The Polar Alliance
The United States and Russia: Superpower Mentalities
The Southern Blocs
Chapter Ten – Ranking the Three Northern Blocs
Third Place Is Not Third Rate
Worker-Caste World View to the Fore
What Happened to the Self-Made Man?
National Teamwork and World Power
The Lead Goose, the Four Geese, and the Slow Ducks
The Struggle for No. 2
Polario as No. 3: Social Solidarity or Bust
No Free Lunch
The Two Economic Systems of the Worker Age
Chapter Eleven – The East is Still Red
The Rise of Russia to Leadership of the Second World1
Communism and Japan-Style Teamwork Capitalism
The Communist Imperative
The End of the Simple “Good Old Days” of Stalin and Mao
Russia and Eastern Europe
The Burden of Past Success
What Really Happened to Communism and the USSR?
New Capitalist Wine in an Old Communist Bottle
Chapter Twelve – Two Embarrassing Questions for the Worker Age: Should the World Imitate Japan? Does Capitalism Really Go Together with Democracy and Freedom?
The Case Against Imitating Japan
The Immaturity of Sexism
When Loss is a Sign of Maturity
Confucio’s Short Life-Span
Reversal of Fortune
The Subtle Spiritualization of Japan
What the Old West Can Learn From the New Japan
Democracy, Freedom and Economic Development?
Confucian Capitalism
Chapter Thirteen – The Last Caste Age: Spiritual-Religious Age No. 2
The World View of the Last Caste Age
The Religious Ruling Elite
Tools and Know-How
Pioneering Stage
Kaliyuga
Born Again
Finally Forward
Religious vs. Spiritual
The End of Religion, The Beginning of Spirituality
The Great Spiritual-Religious Caste Merger
Chapter Fourteen — The Religious Belt: Israel, India, and Islam
Religious Revolution
The Bharati and Pan-Semitic Federations — The Two Great Powers of the Mid-21st Century
Clouds of Terror and the Silver Lining
The Religious Belt — The Cradle of World Religion
Are All Revolutionaries Fundamentalists?
Spiritual Evolution: the Evolutionary Side
Caste Merger and the “W” Word
The Spiritualization of the Working Masses on the Evolutionary Side
The Bharati Federation
Hagar, Sarah, and The Pan-Semitic Federation
Chapter Fifteen — The Great 21st Century Exodus
Three Carrots and a Stick
Kibbutz Galuyot
Another American Crusade
After Tobacco, the Jews
Aftereffects of the Great Exodus
The Golden Calf
“Jewish” Money, Politics, and Spirituality
The Meek and the Mighty
Palestine Returns
Chapter Sixteen — Spiritualizing the Economic System
Kaliyuga’s Feet of Clay
On Bread Alone
The Bread Rises
The Four Movements
Appropriate Technology
Using Appropriate Technology to Industrialize — The Religious Belt
Economic Equality
The Kibbutz As Cushion
Esperanto Is Not Desperanto
Elimination of Work
The Work Ethic Goes The Way Of Its Close Relative, Slavery
Chapter Seventeen – The Spiritual Economy Shifts World Power to the Religious Belt
From Econocracy to Econoclasm
From Capitalism to Anarchism
The Form and The Spirit
Religious Economics
War, Industrial Growth, and the Rich-Poor Gap – Will They Accompany Us to the Grave?
War No More
The Religion Market – From Goods to Services to Religion
The Rise of the Religion Market
Confucio’s Religio-Economic Response
Chapter Eighteen – Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and the Peak Stage of the Spiritual Age
The Coincidence of Religious Prophecy
Religious-Spiritual Teamwork Capitalism
Anarchism
The Caste Struggle’s Last Struggle
Forward to the Past; Back to the Future
The Return to Power of the Indigenous Cultures
Africa, the Past and the Future
Sexuality and Spirituality
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