1. Choice : more than wanting to have your cake and eat it too
2. Behind the scenes of choice : the historical precursors
3. Free will and the vicious spiral of choice : Who's in control?
4. Many branches, many worlds, and the splintering of reality
5. The blurring of reality
6. Postindustrial society : Our break with history?
7. Decision making : Is there a method to its madness?
8. Oppositions : Saussure, structuralism, and more
9. Freedom and existentialism
10. Risk : what it means to us
11. The individual versus the group
12. The turning point : the 1960s
13. High and low culture, subjective and objective mentality
14. From modernism to postmodernism
15. Postmodern manifestations, self-reference, and beyond
16. Critics of contemporary life
17. Societal problems and conflicts : Where are we headed?
18. Have we been here before?
19. Policy implications, and conclusions.
