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In this book, the well-known Czech intellectual Stanislav Komarek discusses the general crisis that European society is approaching and which remains unnoticed, «disguised» as a financial and demographic crisis.

The author analyses the role of traditional religion, supplanted by a religion of economic growth, welfare and consumption based on ever deeper individualism - as well as an unprecedented decline in birth rates.The trauma inflicted on Europe by the Second World War led to the emergence of a caring state that nurtures infantile and obedient citizens, an inability to resist, the introduction of Orwellian "language of political correctness", and so on.

The author examines the historical roots of democracy and the reasons for the decline in its effectiveness in our time. The author compares the "path to extinction" that Western society is following with the more viable systems of functioning in the Islamic world and China, which are already beginning the "quiet colonisation" of Europe, and finally outlines several possible scenarios for its development.

Like all of Professor Komarek's books, including «Man as an Evolutionary Innovation?Europe at the Crossroads is written in Komarek's unique style - light, somewhat provocative, full of humour and irony.