The Choice for the West: Bifurcation Between Innovation Breakthrough and Information Dictatorship

Abstract

The author showed that the modern Western world is facing an extremely important fork in the road, meaning the choice of a further path and ideology of development and a new system of values and social motivation. It is argued that the leading cause of the crisis is the inhibition of the innovative development of modern civilization, which made impossible the neocolonial exploitation of the rest of the world, using innovative superiority. Also, the author showed that a severe problem of the West is the stimulation of growth of quality of life standards and lowering the cost of labour. The paper presents options for responding to this crisis — military suppression of competitors, innovative breakthrough, self-isolation, and information and social manipulation.