It is not only financial capital that is facing difficulties today. These challenges hinder the development of the information society and manifest as a decline in the intellect’s orientation toward the future. In his new book, the renowned scholar—philologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist—Igor Pavlovich Smirnov examines the turmoil shaking the global economy in the 21st century as an integral part of the global crisis currently facing our sociocultural landscape. The author traces the roots of this adverse situation back to the 1930s. The book presents the history of this sociocultural sphere as a series of human attempts to find a basis for salvation.