When the Internet Displaces the Town Square

With his book Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, the journalist and scholar Robert Kaplan joins a long list of thinkers who have turned to TS Eliot for metaphors and maps. Kaplan describes Eliot’s magnum opus as “an immense panorama of futility and anarchy”. Twenty-five years into the new millennium, Kaplan finds the contemporary world to be quite similar. However, it is his accent on the intersections of urbanisation, technology and culture as major drivers of geopolitical transformation that renders edifying value.

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