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Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individual Individuals - Disbelief and Discredit V2 (Paperback)
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Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individual Individuals - Disbelief and Discredit V2 (Paperback)
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Max Weber argued that the development of capitalism would lead to
the progressive rationalization and disenchantment of society:
today this process is reaching its endpoint and capitalism is
collapsing into a disturbing kind of irrationality. It engenders
spiritual misery - a paralysis of the function of the human mind or
spirit - where reason disappears as a motive of hope, a 'kingdom of
ends' in Kant's sense. Absolute disenchantment afflicts all those
who no longer have anything to expect from the development of
hyper-industrial society. Those who are desperate become
'desperados', and they are becoming more and more numerous. No
longer having anything to expect means, at the same time, no longer
having anything to fear. And the proliferating repressive
mechanisms that are supposed to cope with the effects of this loss
of authority turn out to be less and less effective. For such
measures engender more and more the opposite of that for which they
were intended, but in extreme and totally irrational, unpredictable
forms.This is where we are today: the technical system of the
hyper-industrial epoch can maintain its power only so long as it is
backed up by blind trust, but this trust is undermined by the
destructive irrationality stemming from the liquidation of the
kingdom of ends. From the moment this trust is lost, hyper-power is
inverted into hyper-vulnerability and impotence. The loss of
motives of hope then expands, encompassing all of us like a
contagious illness. But this 'all' is no longer a 'we' it is a
panic.
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