Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.