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Quotidian Precipices is the continuation of Quotidian Wonders, my blog active between 2012 and 2019 (still available at https://quotidianwonders.wordpress.com/).
I gather here comments and thoughts on the next steps of human society as it enters the third decade of an already-troubled century and it faces the precipice of a new era brought about by the digital revolution and radicalization of social and political behavior. How will humans and our society change over the next century will determine our fate for the foreseeable future.
From politics to economy, and from the nation state the global order, I discuss digitalization, education, equity, racism, technology, intolerance, extremism, humanism, and much more.
About George T. Sipos
Born in Romania at the height of the communist dictatorship, I experienced the end of the world I grew up when the December 1989 Revolution brought down the authoritarian regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. That experience has thought me that change is possible and not to take anything for granted.
I moved to the United States on a graduate student scholarship in 2000 to study Japanese society and culture, focusing on modernity and its collapse into imperialism and war in the 1930s, a period that reminded me a lot of 1980s Romania. I hold a Master’s degree in the field from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctoral degree from The University of Chicago. I write and publish on the period, and I translate modern Japanese literature into Romanian. I lived, worked and studied in Romania, Japan and the United States, and I speak four languages fluently, plus a few others at various degrees.
In the United States, I became attuned to the numerous issues facing this society, from the skewed definition of democracy, to extremism, racism and the steady deterioration of the education and healthcare systems. The lack of equity for minorities, the lack of acknowledgment of the tragic plight of the Native Americans and the denial of the role of slavery in the history of modern America, and comparisons of these phenomena with Japan and Romania are topics that I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about.
I write and publish some of these texts in Romanian, but I decided to gather the ones in English here.
