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  1. An engaging and intelligent analysis. It reminded me of the work of Marcuse and other Critical Theorists such as Horkheimer and Adorno whose work focused on the tendency of capitalist modernity to subvert rationality to the extent of creating its own mythologies. That similar observations were being made in Marcuse's 'One Dimensional Man' and Adorno and Horkheimer's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' over 40 years ago does not detract from what Hind achieves here, but instead supports the observation that beneath the terrors that rotate through the decades, very little actually changes.

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