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12-2000

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• Reading the Signs of the Times

• The Culture of Modernism as a "Great Disruption"

• The Materialism of Mammon

• Individualism

• Sensualism/Hedonism

• The Youth Cult as a Form of Hedonism

• Here-and-Now-ism & Time Illiteracy

• Externalism

• Externalism: General

• Externalism: The "Please, Please, Please Look at Me" Phenomenon

• Externalism: Celebrititis

• Segmentation & Divisioning

• Mundality

• Combinations of Elements of Modernism

• Miscellaneous Other Peculiar Events & Developments of Our Time

• Computerization

• Miscellaneous Noteworthy, Strange or Bizarre Computer or Net Phenomena

• Computer Ubiquitization

• Replacement of "Real Reality" With "Virtual Reality"

• Computer Technology Aggrandizement, & Even Idolatry

• Doing Low-Tech Things Hi-Tech

• Net Addiction

• The Human Becoming Part of, or Utterly Dependent on, the Computerized Communications Net

• Cyberromance

• Cyberporn

• Other Documented or Asserted Negative Effects or Drawbacks of Computerization

• Hackery, Virusery, & Other Net Sabotage

• Problems of Technologization & Scientific Arrogance Not Directly Related to Computers

• The "Media" in Modernistic Society, & Their Mind Controlling Impact

• Ubiquitization of Western Media & Media Images

• People's Environments Filling Up With Media Gadgets

• People Imitating Unworthy Things Glimpsed From the Entertainment Media

• People's Minds Becoming Dominated, Controlled or Possessed by the Media

• Image Replacing Substance & Even Reality On, or Because of, the Media

• Miscellaneous Destructive Elements & Impacts of the Entertainment & Related Media

• The Creep From Computer & Media Mind Control to Surveillance & Tyranny

• Reading the Signs of the Times in Its Art

• Music

• Representative & Miscellaneous Arts

• Concluding Comment on the Signs of the Times

• Miscellaneous Human Service News

• Other News

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Psychology

Comments

December, 2000, February/April/June, 2001

TIPS, Volume 20, No. 4, 5 & 6, and Volume 21, No. 1, 2000/2001

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