an enormous refuse heap.............

 

The ideology of progress has led to barbarism, and modern science has become a tool of enslavement rather than a tool of liberation.  In this post-Nietzschean world, the enslavement was not restricted to dictatorships, the usual recipients of the epithet "totalitarian"; it was just as pervasive in the "democratic" countries of the West, where the all-embracing power of the culture industry had nearly buried the possibility of independent critical thought beneath an enormous refuse heap of commodified artifacts and reified minds.

-Wilfred M. McClay, Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994)