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A review by sky_reaper
The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
4.0
This is a good starting point for anyone: a reader of history, totally unexperienced, or looking for something else that has some sense for it's about us. From using the personal lense of "I" as a springboard, to explain the "we" in our present condition that originated from a long process of historical movement; the plenitude that is the progenitor of the author's argument which he call and identify as the masses.
Ortega started with a bleak pronouncement of moral decay into the modern lifestyle in the Europe because of historical neglect. There's primitivism, technicism, and liberal democracy that he pointed out as the motivation to that decadence.
And even though the point of reference is in Europe, I think the circumstances given could still speak to us mostly if we're keen enough to observe and listen.
*4 stars because I dont think the translated version is readable enough.
Ortega started with a bleak pronouncement of moral decay into the modern lifestyle in the Europe because of historical neglect. There's primitivism, technicism, and liberal democracy that he pointed out as the motivation to that decadence.
And even though the point of reference is in Europe, I think the circumstances given could still speak to us mostly if we're keen enough to observe and listen.
*4 stars because I dont think the translated version is readable enough.