When the industrializing impulse has penetrated even these institutions that have historically been regarded as safe havens from economic pressures and mentalities, our contemporary life looks increasingly like the “iron cage of rationality” that Weber warned of over a hundred years earlier. When we acknowledge how we are a people who have inherited a society built on the mature foundations of industrialization, we can better see how thoroughly we are primed to having even our experience of friendships, families, and our most intimate of relationships “rationalized” through the digital
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