As in every Unbehagen way, it is manifested with great resentment against civilization. Nowadays we stand before a practical and theoretical argument against each element of this project. Irrationalism is diffused through social attitudes and behaviors. Individuals are undermined both by the acquiescence intrinsic to a modern mass society and by their own attempts to react against massification. There are increased attempts to submerge into the social setting, a certain nostalgia for a community shelter, a search for roots and for group identities, which in Brazil assume the form of obscure afro-banalities and mysticism with native groups.
Holism substitutes for individualism.
In practice, universalism is also submitted to particularism. The idea of a common human nature disappears, as well as ordinary receivers and politics, which are supposed to abolish obstacles to free communication among people. All of these elements are manifestations of discontent in modernity. This structure possesses an institutional, external dimension. Obviously there are economic reasons and objective political factors that would explain the contemporary explosion of rational, ethnic and religious peculiarities.