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10 pages in length. The loss of freedom and reason was a concept that greatly worried Spanish philosopher and social theorist Jose Ortega y Gasset. At the time of World War I, totalitarianism was taking a stronghold upon Europe, while the Great Depression proved to threaten the nature and destiny of the Western civilization. The Enlightenment had begun to show signs of wear, directly affecting the manner by which freedom and reason were slowly but surely being cast aside. It can be argued that with the weakening influence of World War I, reason and freedom stood little chance of escaping the impact of totalitarianism. It was Ortega's contention that through the means of such barbarism, those who were intellectually undisciplined and culturally unrefined would soon serve as the new ambassadors to European existence. Asserting that such masses would prove fatal to the Europe's cultural, economic and political progress, Ortega was mightily concerned with the fascist and communist implications of such a trend, which he clearly addressed in his book entitled 'The Revolt of the Masses.' Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the time of World War I, totalitarianism was taking a stronghold upon Europe, while the Great Depression proved to threaten the "nature and destiny of the Western civilization" (Anonymous 20eorteg.html).
The Enlightenment had begun to show signs of wear, directly affecting the manner by which freedom and reason were slowly but surely being cast aside. It can be
argued that with the weakening influence of World War I, reason and freedom stood little chance of escaping the impact of totalitarianism. It was Ortegas contention that through the
means of such barbarism, those who were "intellectually undisciplined and culturally unrefined" (Anonymous 20eorteg.html) would soon serve as the new ambassadors to European existence. Asserting that such masses would
prove fatal to the Europes cultural, economic and political progress, Ortega was mightily concerned with the fascist and communist implications of such a trend, which he clearly addressed in his
book, entitled The Revolt of the Masses. I. ORTEGAS MISSION To Ortega, regaled as "the greatest of European writers after Nietzsche" (McInnes 78), mass culture was the key to
the complete and utter destruction of European civilization, inasmuch as the Spanish philosopher keenly noted the manner by which the concepts of fascism and communism were readily overtaking the entire
continent. Within the literary confines of The Revolt of the Masses, Ortega succinctly demonstrated how psychologically and culturally analogous constituents would effectively "overtake governments which would otherwise be ruled
peacefully by an elite" (Anonymous 20eorteg.html). However, in his attempt to point out the detrimental shortcomings of such ongoing activity, Ortegas points were erroneously misconstrued as being the driving
force behind the very concepts of Nazism, fascism and socialism that he so earnestly attempted to avoid. "Ortega had been right in diagnosing a cultural crisis and it was
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