The Human Condition of the Animo Labarance

Modernity has produced a world where there is no actual public realm for people to engage in any more. We are imprisoned in our own private lives of labor and work, we are alienated from the public world. The outcome is what is euphemistically called mass culture. This is the type of rootless person that needs to exist in mass if you want to explain the rise of totalitarianism," he says.