Charles Dickens would have been no more right when he quoted " It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was an age of wisdom , it was an age of foolishness. Back then, a revolution savvy society had a proclivity for changes in the societal stratagem that ultimately culminated into French revolution. Contemporaneously, it also wrecked a "winter of despair" leading to death and destruction of the outgoing political system.
The above gnome by Dickens reflects paradoxical spectrums of the societal and political order at that time it is very much germane in the contemporary epoch and the phrase holds much relevance today as well.
Looking at the apocalypse the world order is facing at the social, political and economic levels, it is not a rocket science to square off the collapse the institutions of the global order would face.
There are myriad contradictions within the Democracies themselves ,how they act in different situations using ideological positions as a wielding tool in their hands. It is evident that the democracies with their hipocracy at the forefront try to school the ostensible "lesser civilised world" of their radicalised version of ideological connotations; their relations with other foreign nations.
The chapter tries to present the right perspective in which the debate around the changing paradigm of the politcial and social order of the world at large and primarily its major institutions is traceable.
The collapse of the order and the hipocracy of protagonists of this world order formed post world war is all out in open for us to see causing a catastrophic toll on those on the edge of human existence..