barbarization
- noun
- /ˌbɑːrbəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
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barbarización
- The fast spread of social media has led to a form of barbarization in public discourse, where respectful debate has largely been replaced by hostility.
- barbarization scenario
Examples
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Many fear that the decline in educational standards will contribute to the barbarization of society as critical thinking skills diminish.
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By contrast, both the Barbarization and Great Transitions scenarios assume that there will be a fundamental change from current trends—in one case leading to a negative vision of the future, in the other to a positive vision.
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Like the Conventional Worlds scenario, Barbarization can assume two basic forms.
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Our analysis focused on three basic visions of the future, which we call the Conventional Worlds, Barbarization, and Great Transitions scenarios.
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At this point, the tension between the forces of conventional development (or barbarization) and the new planetary consciousness has reached a critical moment.
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But this scenario cannot be taken for granted, any more than significant tilts toward the Barbarization or Great Transitions scenarios can be entirely ruled out.
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The Barbarization scenario lurks as a danger; however, the punishment that may be imposed on future generations for unwarranted complacency today.
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In the Fortress World variant of the Barbarization scenario, powerful regional and international entities manage to impose some form of authoritarian order on the populace at large.
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The Barbarization scenario envisions the possibility that the social, economic, and moral underpinnings of civilization will deteriorate as emerging problems overwhelm the coping capacity of both markets and policy reforms.
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The government introduced measures to combat the barbarization of local culture, promoting arts and public performances to encourage civil discourse.
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Morphology
barbarization = barbarize (transparent) = barbar + ize + ation
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ation' to 'barbarize', yielding 'the process or result of making barbarous', which is a straightforward derivation.
Etymology
The word barbarization comes from the old root barbar-, which began as a Greek imitation 'bar-bar' for strange speech and gave us barbarian and barbaric. So barbarization is the process of making people or a society 'uncivilized' or less 'cultured'.