Summary
Daniel Halevy: History of four years: 1997 - 2001
In short, for the vast majority of this "newly created humanity", the only remaining meaning of life is exhausted in the feverish search for pleasures, within the framework of a society totally focused on consumption. (By the way, describing his fictitious "civilization of consumption", Halevy also predicted many inventions of the modern entertainment industry.) Those savage masses, however, with their destructive impulses, in Halevy's dystopia are opposed only by the elite, the community of the few - those who, using self-discipline in the general chaos, "searched for new reasons for living within themselves, and found them".
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