Philosophy Book Recommendations
Commenters frequently recommend philosophical texts and thinkers like Nietzsche, Foucault, Tocqueville, Adorno, and Bertrand Russell, drawing parallels to themes of enlightenment, society, modernity, and sociopolitical critiques discussed in the article.
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Yeah, like something by Thomas More or Carl Marx..
you should read this fun book called the Dialectic of Enlightenment[0][0]https://monoskop.org/images/2/27/Horkheimer_Max_Adorno_Theod...
the likes of foucault and nietzsche would be better source material than random internet opinion for this sort of thing. this is sociopolitical push-pull between the average and the relative outliers--as old as time, just with different jargon.
You may want to read "the industrial society and its future". As a philosopher, underrated.
Alexis De Tocqueville had some thoughts relevant to this: https://youtu.be/Rzr3AOtFA8o
may you please elaborate? to what ideas of the enlightenment you think they aren't subscribed?
Fides et ratio was written to address that problematic way of thinking (what you just expressed). Maybe give it a read.
Similar to https://newrepublic.com/article/123162/everybody-hates-henry... . (Can't comment on their accuracy as I haven't read Thoreau.)
You are not alone, there are academics who have build careers around this notion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
Read Ayn Rand's title essay in her anthology "For The New Intellectual" for the history and current state of Western thought.