“More and more young, intellectually inclined, and politically heterodox thinkers are showing disillusionment with the contemporary faith in technocracy and personal autonomy. They see this combination as having contributed to the fundamentally alienating character of modern Western life. The chipper, distinctly liberal optimism of rationalist... See more

In these fractured, post-truth times, the qualities that people increasingly seek out, value or pay for are authenticity, individuality, inventiveness, uniqueness and meaning .