New society: A woman walking past high rise buildings in the financial district of Hong Kong. Hong Kong society has become polarised because the young has seized the moment in Occupy Central, sending all the professional politicians to the sidelines. – AFP
POLARISATION is the deep divisions within society. We see this in every opinion poll where the majority of the population is almost equally divided between those who agree to stay with the status quo and those who want to change it. In between are the Tea Parties or the radical minority, whose views are much more extreme, but they help shape public opinion, which is both undecided and confused at the same time.
The deep divide is actually a generational split. As I mentioned in an earlier article, Henry Kissinger has touched on this generational gap in his book World Order. He sees this as the age of technology that has upturned the foundations of social order through its disrupting speed and scale of change.
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