Today's

Paul Goodman (1911-1972) was an American sociologist and author. One of his most famous works was the book Growing Up Absurd (1956), a critique of the modern technological state as it developed after World War II. Here's a short quote from that book, which still has relevance today:

"The case is with us in America that , by and large,
vast organizations, of state, capital, production, labor,
communications, education, urbanism, etc. etc., have
pre-empted the means of life. This is currently inevitable
and doubtless in many ways desirable, though not so
unquestionably desirable as most people think....
At the same time, it is resulting in a conformity that
is by now inane and boring and will soon be dangerous,
for nothing revitalizing can occur in an organizational
plan, and when something occurs outside the plan it
may not have space to grow."