The Society of the Spectacle
Aggressively anti-intellectual.  And.. tortured?  It reads like a literary version of [<i>The Scream</i>](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Scream" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Scream</a> ), where it aggressively rejects reality as a monster, grasping at straws in the process in a manner that suggests severe psychological disturbance.<p>The author seems to be begging for a simpler world -- to go back to an ancient golden age, before things got so complex (before &quot;<i>The Spectacle</i>&quot;).  Before science, before economics, before industrialization, before mass-education, before the human knowledge-pool got bigger, and even before people recorded years (the author makes a big point of how only seasons, and not years, should be observed).