Awareness that change is a constant feature of human life is as old as civilisation.

Composition

Awareness that change is a constant feature of human life is as old as civilisation. However, more recently, technological development has greatly enhanced both the prospects for rapid change and the range of its social, political, and cultural impact.

Bearing this in mind, comment on Berman’s contention (in Muqtedar Khan’s text “Radical Islam, Liberal Islam” in section 2 above) that “those motivated by aversion for liberalism will continue to seek the downfall of the West as long as its culture continues to influence the world, the Muslim World in particular”.