However, there are those who see modernization as anything but progress and even define it as a devolution to a more primitive state. For them, rational systems have only resulted in an isolation and deadening of modern life.
People become machines which are then used for purposes which can only be described as barbaric.
I and II for an example of this type of mechanistic primitivism. However, the problem with this second view is that what ends up happening is anything but rational. Fascism and war, two common examples of rationality's failure, are not rationally based. If anything, they are indicative of a flight from rationality and a rationally based system. What I would like to suggest is that one of the problems of modernity rests in the fact that modern societies and peoples no longer hue to a rational mode of thought.