CONTENTS

1. The Transition of the Year 2000: The Fourth Stage of Human Society

2. Megapolitical Transformations in Historic Perspective

3. East of Eden: The Agricultural Revolution and the Sophistication of Violence

4. The Last Days of Politics: Parallels Between the Senile Decline of the Holy Mother Church and the Nanny State

5. The Life and Death of the Nation-State: Democracy and Nationalism as Resource Strategies in the Age of Violence

6. The Megapolitics of the Information Age: The Triumph of Efficiency over Power

7. Transcending Locality: The Emergence of the Cybereconomy

8. The End of Egalitarian Economics: The Revolution in Earnings Capacity in a World Without Jobs

9. Nationalism, Reaction, and the New Luddites

10. The Twilight of Democracy

11. Morality and Crime in the "Natural Economy" of the Information Age

Afterword Appendix: Resources for Achieving Independence Notes Index