@matrix pretty entertaining, I think Nietzsche was one of the first to look with despair at the direction modern society was/is heading towards
>On his journey, Zarathustra encounters the last man, the final egregious product of decadent bourgeois society. He is an insect in comparison with his predecessors—“his race is as ineradicable as the flea-beetle”—yet thanks to his command over the material world and doctrine of progress, “the last man lives the longest.” Zarathustra comes to the marketplace, the symbol of modern man’s pettiness and empty values, where “everyone wants the same; everyone is the same; whoever wants different goes voluntarily to the madhouse.” Although the last man claims that modern man “invented happiness,” what he has actually done is to destroy it by banishing the will to power: exertion, creativity, and striving. It is a society with “no shepherd and one herd.